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Originally Posted by Caged Great
This is the part that irks me about how they've approached this whole situation.
Instead of being "bad" and just embracing the rebuild, the Flames could have had any of Misa, Frondell, Desnoyers, Martin, Hagen, O'Brien, McQueen, or Kindell along with Reschny.
So instead of having one center prospect and a potential Mangiapane type player, we could have two legit top center prospects.
We have to wait another full season to potentially get a top center, which if we are picking in the top 3, that won't be the case this year unless we reach as both of Stenberg and McKenna are wingers and Verhoff is a D-man.
It's so frustrating that they don't want to rebuild and be Buffalo yet their decisions are causing them to go exactly down the path that Buffalo took.
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Please explain what the Flames could have done differently in a season in which their rookie goaltender performed way above expectations. I mean, relying on two goaltenders with a combined total of 20 or so NHL games between them isn't exactly the way to try to make the playoffs. How exactly could they have picked Misa? Benched Wolf for being too good? Traded away Rasmus for next to nothing? Would trading Andersson last season have even made any difference to the team's performance, the way he was playing with his injury? Do you think the Flames could have convinced Kadri to waive his NMC when the team was doing well and he didn't want to move?
I'm satisfied with what the team has done so far, but it's a work in progress. My overall satisfaction will depend on whether Kadri, Coleman, and an RHD are traded, and for what returns. The team has a star goaltender, one potentially star D, and good forward and back end depth, but needs at least two first line players, including a 1C, as well as a 1st pairing LHD. So I voted a 5, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied at this point, with my assessment incomplete.