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Originally Posted by New Era
Sustaining the system itself. Did it ever occur to you the reason our team sucked for so long was because we had a GM who would deal away our picks and best prospects for run of the mill players or has-beens? Our system was devoid of any quality players and our team imploded as a result. The team has finally started to see the returns on good scouting and drafting and building an actual pipeline of talent. Now is not the time to damage that life sustaining flow of talent. We are hard up to making trades for impact players because of the NMC, which Calgary is almost universally on. So you have to draft and develop them.
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Our team sucked because it was poorly constructed. They had a Hall of Fame RWer, the best goalie the city had ever seen, and frankly not much else. The three best centres Jarome ever played with were Daymond Langkow, Olli Jokinen and Craig Conroy.
On defense, their best defenseman was Robyn Regehr, who couldn't play offense. Their second best defenseman was a young Dion, who couldn't/wouldn't play defense.
They never managed to find another elite player forward.
The Flames as they are currently constructed are light years better than any team Darryl Sutter ever assembled. Gaudreau, Monahan, Backlund, Frolik and Tkachuk are a better group of top six forwards than anything the Flames have iced post-2000.
The defense needs one top-4 guy to be able to play two pairs 25 minutes a night.
One core player is older than 28. Trade some prospects and help this group. Don't trade prospects in the desperate hope that a poorly constructed gaggle of aging veterans will finally get it done.
