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Originally Posted by Jason14h
The Flames were coming off a 97 point season . They were adding Parekh to the lineup , and we’re hoping their young players would take another step forward
They were rumoured to be in on some of the offseason trades like Cozens
How do you know they didn’t try to make the team better? We have no idea who they tried to sign or trade for .
Now they certainly didn’t make stupid moves to try and marginally improve - I’ll 100% give you that and think it’s a welcome change .
Remember the vast majority of this board thought the Flames would
Just miss the playoffs or make / advance. That’s a 90+ point pace most people believed in . Why is it far fetched to think Flames management thought this would be a 100 point team with some improvements from the younger players and Parekh ?
A lot of the same people who thought the Flames were a playoff team this year now “clearly” see it’s a rebuild 4 months later and 1 trade (a player who was getting moved either way from everything reported over last 6 months)
I don’t think the Flames knew what they had as a roster coming into this year and took a wait and see approach . That’s a low risk low reward approach either way - Not adding to a 97 point team and not subtracting / accelerating the rebuild by subtracting
Now there’s lots of time between now and deadline to solidify a way forward , but if we leave this season with just the Andersson trade that will be 1 trade we acquired picks and 1 trade we acquired assets (frost and farabee) for picks over 2 years
Not exactly a rebuild to write home about .
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Great post. Should put it on a sign so we can just tap on it when the turkey squad gets all up in arms.