Originally Posted by Two Fivenagame
I recall CP being like this the last time the Flames faced a rebiggle. The discussion back then centered around why the Flames waited so long to trade Iginla. Most of CP saw the writing on the wall - Iginla and the rest of the roster were getting older, slower, and were playing some of the most boring unwatchable hockey. Yet the Flames seemed to drag their feet and made decisions that kept the roster in the mushy middle for a number of years.
The future was bolstered by mushy-middle draft picks like Tim Erickson, Greg Nemisz, Mark Jankowski, and Sven Baertschi.
There wasn't any real excitement for the future until the Flames bottomed out and started drafting near the top with Bennett, Monahan, and Tkachuk. That's when CP became really interesting and a fun place to be.
Unfortunately I see the Flames doing the same things again. They're afraid to make to make hard decisions that truly benefit the future and immediately inject some potential super Star talent on the roster. So once again the Flames trot out the old ways of thinking - we can't trade him, he has a NMC, we need to keep the culture in the room, we need an offer that really blows our socks off, we don't use the "R" word, there are other ways to build a roster that doesn't rely on bottoming out, yadda yadda yadda.
Meanwhile, here are Zary, Peltier, Honzek, Coronato, and Reschney instead of any legitimate chance at Bedard, Celibrini, Schaefer, and likely McKenna.
Worst of all imo, you don't need 5 GMs to do that work and certainly not the same crew keeping you in the mushy middle.
Fire Maloney and the rest, give CC complete control, trade everyone over 26 for *reasonable* returns instead of holding out for the best possible deals, and bottom the eff out right bloody now. Avoid this slow inevitable death nonsense and bottom out now.
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