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Originally Posted by The EBUG's EBUG
Can't speak for everybody but I think that my main fear about this management/ownership group is that we get the impression from a lot of the public comments from Maloney/Insiders/Ownership's Mandate/etc that this team is a 6 game winning streak away from putting the rebuild on pause because "this group has earned the right to try to make the playoffs" and other classic Flamesy comments like that.
That may be totally wrong, maybe they will make the hard choices and commit to selling assets at the deadline even if they theoretically find themselves in a playoff race. It's easy moving expiring contracts and vets that are asking out, it's harder looking at a roster a couple points out and saying "nope, this isn't it".
I really hope if/when the time comes, that they have the conviction in a long term plan to not let the bizarrely tight standings impact things but I don't think it's crazy to be apprehensive.
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Why would you still hang on to this when we have evidence that they didn't and because of that likely won't?
Last year in a playoff spot at the deadline sitting on a mountain of cap space and copious amounts of draft capital they added nothing.
How can you not make prudent ass moves as far out as they are when they didn't make silly asset moves when they were right there weeks from the playoffs?