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Originally Posted by ComixZone
We have enough of history that the Flames approach to doing things in the last 30+ years is wrong if their goal is to win a Stanley Cup.
Signing Hiller, Raymond, and Engelland hurt this team. Without those players, perhaps we would have traded away more than just Glencross the following season and while we may have missed the playoffs, we would have been better off in the long run with how the team has drafted since Tree got here. Impatience.
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There’s no way to tell whether we would have been better off or not. Frankly, that’s a fool’s errand.
If you’re looking to say someone was impatient, I strongly suggest that it would have been ownership and/or Brian Burke. Burke famously said in his first press conference as Leaf’s GM that he didn’t have patience for a rebuild. Doubt very much his philosophy on that changed by the time he got to the Flames.