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Originally Posted by Jason14h
Who? These were the top UFA's to help our scoring.
Marner - Flames poked around and would have signed 100% if he wanted too
Ehlers - Signed with Carolina in what already looks like a bad deal. Why would he have wanted to come to Calgary over Carolina? How much more then 8.5 AVV would we have had to give.
Boeser - Resigned with Van
Nelson - Resigned with Colorado
There were very few UFA forward who actually were better then who we had. We already have the problem of too many wingers and 3 established centers who are all probably slotted 1 spot too high.
We have a team of 2nd and 3rd liners. They didn't need to sign another. The inaction on UFA forward sure doesn't speak to the intentions this year. It speaks to the lack of 1st line talent available (Which will be a reoccuring theme going forward with the rising cap- Teams don't let their top talent reach UFA and if they do they don't sign in Calgary)
Now on D I think there were some options to improve to team with a UFA overpay. But we also have a pipeline of almost or ready D prospects who they needed to make room for. I think if they were trying hard to make the playoffs they might have overspent for a D.
(Maybe they did try - the UFA has to want to sign here as well)
They also kicked the tires (Rumored) on players like Cozens and Peterka.
The Flames lack of adding win now talent may just be because they couldn't get those (few available) players to sign or complete a trade.
Now I take it as a positive they aren't overpaying UFA's and Trades for a short term fix, but I don't take it as evidence they aren't trying to get better or make the playoffs. But they did have 96 points least year, were adding Parekh and at least tried in a few cases to add quality players even if they missed out.
In reality the Flames have done a bunch of... nothing over the past 1.5 years.
I'm not fully convinced it was planned that way to be 'bad'. I also am not convinced they even have a long term plan how to get into the elite echelon of teams.
If they aren't planning to ever be bottom of league bad, they better have another plan on how to get an elite entire first line AND replace Andersson, Kadri, Coleman and Backlund's contribution over the next 3 years. Cause getting a late 1st for each isn't going to move the needle - We'll be lucky if we can replace 2/4 of those players production with late first picks.
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Very well said, this team may not be spending asset to get better in the short term, but more importantly they lack any coherent and logical plan that has any vision for long term success.
IMO they really take advantage of this being the only big sports team in the city, they peddle such *&$#@ ridiculous arguments from Maloney that a high "may" not help the team, which may be right, but it just screams something they can grasp onto to help their business agenda and to try and appease the more concerning fan, it's arrogance. Man...I can't stand the loser, telling me what I should want, I have seen this teams playoff record the last 20-25 years, it's pathetic, and for the guy to tell me that we should stay the course....get $#@&$&#@ real....like get real for ONCE!
The only way it changes is when fans start tuning out, not showing up to home games, not buying the merchandise.