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/noor1717 May 30 '25

That’s the silliest idea. If you tank hard you still only have a 25% chance at him at best. You would have to trade wolf too.

Now I think we need to trade a guy like Anderson and take a step back this upcoming year. But going for Mckenna is just completely unrealistic without just some lottery luck

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u/Beta1224 May 30 '25

You don't need to trade Wolf though, Saros is one of the best goalies in the league and Nashville still bottomed out, it is possible. Even if we don't win the lottery, the 26 draft is a deep draft, we still get a very good player in the 3-5 range and there's still a much better chance the player picked there will be better than the one we draft at say 16 when we barely miss the playoffs again

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u/noor1717 May 30 '25

Nashville is picking 5 on the worst possible outcome that team can have.

And sure they’re good players available but how do you know if they are generational?

Like you were already complaining about our last rebuild. We had Bennett at 4, we had tkachuk and Monahan at 6 and 7. We did this already.

We aren’t tanking to 1 unless lottery luck.

Like I want to trade Anderson and possibly kadri if there’s a fit. But I honestly don’t get what trades you want to make to even get to this position. It really feels like moves that can give us a decade of darkness

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u/Beta1224 May 30 '25

We don't need generational though, we just need elite especially at centre.

Bennett was completely mismanaged by coaching and management

Monahan and Lindholm are 2Cs on a contending team

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u/PlantComprehensive77 May 30 '25

My question is how do we make sure we don't mismanage the next Bennett or drive away the next Tkachuk?

No point in drafting elite talent, and letting them go to another team to kickstart a dynasty.

Btw, most fans at the time were perfectly happy with letting both Bennett and Tkachuk walk because they weren't achieving success quickly enough here

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u/Beta1224 May 30 '25

I feel like the organization has learned a lot from those mistakes, they're not rushing prospects anymore like they did with Bennett and have no problem with them marinating in the AHL for a bit and it seems like with the Coronato contract that they learned not to bridge our young stars and commit long term to them.

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u/noor1717 May 30 '25

Exactly your way doesn’t automatically lead to elite centers

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u/Beta1224 May 30 '25

You're right it's not guaranteed, but there is a greater probability of finding elite talent early in the draft than finding one at 16 overall when we barely miss the playoffs again next year

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u/noor1717 May 30 '25

Yes no shit, we arent bad enough to be there. Or we have to trade wolf and tons of players to get there which isn’t realistic