As I wake up this morning, and look back at another 1st round exit, I am reminded of this tweet:
https://twitter.com/darrenwhaynes/st...555012608?s=21
Talbot was part of the reason the flames lost yesterday but he's also the only reason this series didn't look exactly the same as last year. Flames played well in game 1, were dominated game2, were dominated in game 3 (Talbot steals the game), dominated when it counts in game4, dominated in game 5, and outside of the first 10 mins, we're dominated in game 6 last night.
How much different is this year to last year's embarrassment?? They showed up for 2-3 periods of hockey more than last year, if that?
Ward didn't win them the series but he's not the only reason they lost. It's on Giordano,monahan, gaudreau. That's your veteran core. Those are the players playing the most important roles on the team that didn't rise to the occasion.
I hate this year's flames team. I think I must have definitely been an annoying contributor to this forum due to that (for which I apologize), but I also don't think I am alone in having serious issues with so much of how the roster is constructed and 2 years of not changing a damn thing.
I think treliving is a great speaker and seems like an awesome guy. However he is a pretty terrible gm. He goes fast when he needs to go slow (trading 1st, 2nd round picks out when this team hadn't completed their rebuilding part of the cycle). He the n the n goes slow when he should go fast (no changes to the core, no changes at all in 2 years). For a guy who preaches process, he sure should have stuck to his own lip service.
By jumping the gun and trading the 1st (not to mention the 2x seconds) gave up the chance to just draft barzal or any of Connor, chabot, koneckny, boeser.
That and the hamonic trades were completely unnecessary. I would much rather have any of the above guys over Lindholm and Hanafin mind you. Hanafin is ~400 games into his career and hasn't improved an iota in his 2 seasons as a flame.
I'm done with the management group and the gm. Everyone agrees changes need to be made. I want to have an experienced guy (who has won something as part of a manager, not a group of guys from a garbage coyotes org) to come in, with a fresh and fully objective view of the roster.
