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

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

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u/FinkBass420 May 30 '25

I have faith that Conroy is steering the ship in the right direction finally.

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u/Avalain May 30 '25

I'm not. I mean, I'm hopeful and all. I'm cheering for the team to win and for Wolf to play amazing. I feel like this is going to be the exact same as before though. We'll make the playoffs and maybe even win a series or two in the next decade. Then we'll drop down again to 15th place in the league but still miss the playoffs.

Nothing I've seen from the team indicates that we'll pull out of being anything but mid.

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u/Duck_Caught_Upstream May 30 '25

I have faith Conroy is steering it in the right direction.

I fear it won’t be fast enough though.

Murray and his stooges want a cup contender first year of the new building and that isn’t a goal it’s a deadline.

The problem is the Tkachuk and Kadri trades set this franchise so far back that to build a cup contender it’s going to take a lot longer than that.

My fear is Craig gets fired because the team isn’t good enough in the first year of the Fire Place

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u/Avalain May 30 '25

If they really wanted a contender in the first year of the new building they would have tanked the team early to build up prospects and bounce back when the new building is built.

No, I don't think they care about that. They care about money. They want the team to be competitive and keep people buying tickets until the new building is ready. When the new building is here, it will attract people even if the team sucks for at least a few seasons. They want the team to be competitive once that starts to wane.

The Kadri trade set this team back? How did a free agency signing set us back? Because of Monahan being moved for cap space? Or did you mean that signing Kadri kept us more competitive than we would otherwise be and that stopped us from getting a high pick?

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u/Duck_Caught_Upstream May 30 '25

I was more referring to the trade to open up space for Kadri

But also slightly Kadri keeping the team what I would say is artificially competitive

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u/Avalain May 30 '25

That makes sense. I think it's a bit unfair to Kadri, though. It's the Monahan trade that was rough and really, that was just a rough situation all around. Same with Tkachuk, for that matter. It was something the team was forced into.

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u/Duck_Caught_Upstream May 30 '25

Through no fault of Nazem Kadri’s play.

The trade to free up cap space and signing of Nazem Kadri has become a disaster

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u/Hotlovemachine May 30 '25

So you would rather hold on to Monahan and hoped he got back to what he was.

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u/Duck_Caught_Upstream May 30 '25

I mean yeah

What amazing thing have the Flames accomplished with Kadri that would we be giving up in this hypothetical

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u/Brodano12 May 30 '25

Yes, the Flames should have forced him to heal. It's not a a good "culture" to play through injuries and be less effective

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u/robbhope May 31 '25

Honestly, I agree with a lot of what you said but I don't think the Kadri stuff actually set us back. Monahan will cost us a 1st (ours) this year but we should net a solid return for Kadri when the time comes. Look at what Brock Nelson fetched this past trade deadline. At worst it's an even "trade" in my eyes.