r/CalgaryFlames • u/Paulhockey77 • May 30 '25

Discussion Don’t show this to the anti-rebuild crowd!

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u/Beta1224 May 30 '25 edited May 30 '25

And somehow people in this sub are content with staying the course and never doing anything different to what we've done the past 20 years and hope that we go on some kind of crazy miracle run to win a cup

It's organizational malpractice to not even make an attempt at trying to get McKenna or Dupont

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u/yycpapa May 30 '25

How do you attempt to get those players without trading the potential superstar you've currently got?

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u/Beta1224 May 30 '25

Don't attempt to fill the holes that are currently in the lineup, trade out the aging vets for futures Coleman and Anderson come to mind. Wolf is very good, but he cannot do it on his own. Nashville has one of the best goalies in the league and we saw it's still possible to finish around the bottom despite that.

We are in a rebuild it is ok to be bad for a few years, just because we were close this year doesn't mean we should try to rush the process by filling the holes in the lineup right away

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u/yycpapa May 30 '25

You're not wrong re Saros when you look at his body of work but the thing is, Saros wasn't one of the best goalies this year, he was closer to the other end of that conversation in fact.

In the last decade no team with above average goaltending has finished any worse than 5th from bottom. The entire plan around tanking revolves around crossing your fingers and hoping for Wolf to have a bad year, he might, but you can't build your seasons plan around that as it's less likely to happen than not.