devin cooley fuck off

@joshuaS_10 teams with actual aura aren’t in 29th place lmao like what’s the fun in suffering through crap seasons like these if you’re going to fuck it all up with a couple weeks to go for funsies

@FSN2NASTY We hear the same "winning culture" argument every single season when this team goes a pointless winning streak. When will this winning culture we've built turn into winning?

why do flames fans turn into such lames as soon as possible when the flames win a couple games in a row. it’s like clockwork. you can’t suck for more than 5 minutes without people itching to pull out the same old culture bullshit tweets.

@nitwitschool very well could’ve been. in that scenario, when trading fox later they would’ve got similar value of a hanifin type back. probably wouldn’t have even made that type of deal w carolina at all in the first place. so it’s a complete unknown hard to even speculate what would’ve been

@FSN2NASTY Yeah fair, I just can't help but believe the 2015 pick would've been Noah Hanifin. So it ends up the exact same team but without Elias Lindholm, essentially. There's more Tre could've done to surround them with talent is my steady opinion.

@nitwitschool yeah just to make it clear my problem w the downfall of the 2010’s flames wasn’t that they never drafted 1st overall, i think just a couple more yrs of more top 5-10 picks and less moral victories / fun comeback kid moments woulda been way more beneficial long term

@FSN2NASTY Difficult debate to have with a character limit. I just think even with the best strategy in the world, lucking into 1st overall is just that - luck. I don't necessarily fault them for not doing it. Would it have made things significantly easier? Absolutely.

@nitwitschool we’re gonna have to leave this convo here lol. i could go all day and i’d push back on some of what you’d said since i don’t totally agree but let’s just both agree that the last thing that should be in the interest of the calgary flames is another ryan strome ot winner tonight😂

@FSN2NASTY And that includes not knowing what they had in Sam Bennett, or how to properly deploy or develop him. Florida sure as hell knew what he was.

@nitwitschool all i’m basically trying to say, is before you start building up a strong supporting cast, you better hope to hell you’ve figured out the stars first. not having enough star power or a properly constructed roster and focusing on the less important parts of the roster is backwards

@nitwitschool gaudreau was an infant in 2015 tho like if anything bennett was the star of that playoff run not him. and the team stunk in 2016. 23 and 13 would’ve been fine, even on shit roster. i don’t think it’s one or the other

@nitwitschool they coulda been worse imo if they truly tried

@nitwitschool less stajans hudlers cammalleries backlunds giordano’s and others. they stunk but they didn’t stink enough. drafting is a total crapshoot i agree but the flames always seem to find the plucky vets that want to try and finally call up the energetic kids end of yr

@nitwitschool that was spun as a successful culture building year. fast forward and none of that lasted (lottery team the next yr), didn’t help get us anywhere close to a cup. i’d have to disagree w you here one of the biggest missed opportunities in recent flames history wasthecomeback kid yr

@nitwitschool when the flames should’ve been rebuilding properly and putting themselves in a place to draft mcdavid or eichel, they were scoring meaningless stajan ot winners vs vancouver. imagine one of those guys + the mony, gaudreau, tkachuk core. now we’re actually talking.

@nitwitschool tre/ownership screwed us by not committing to the rebuild hard enough. we got mony & johnny and had good vibes in 2015 and thought we were a lot better than we actually were. we did not collect nearly enough good pieces to start trying to compete again when we did

@FSN2NASTY You need veterans with contracts. There's a minimum salary cap for a reason. The problem, when the time comes, is not being able to differentiate a good depth player like Stajan from a bad one like Brouwer or Colborne. That's partially where Tre screwed us. Bad supporting cast.

@nitwitschool i like the irl person lol but stajan may be one of my least liked flames when he was w cgy haha him becoming the matt stajan of the group makes me want to keep him even less. the mid 2010’s flames would’ve been so better off with less stajans/vets on the roster ruined our rebuild

@FSN2NASTY I think he can just be the Matt Stajan of this team if they decide to keep him around. Once people move on from his original potential as a scorer, I do think he'd still be a good drink stirrer as the rest of the roster populates with youth.

@nitwitschool frost is fine i like frost anyone thinking he’s an essential pillar of this team’s future or a top 6 center to lock in forever like i’ve seen on here the last couple days tho in my opinion needs to dream bigger and watch other better hockey teams play

@FSN2NASTY I agree with what you're saying completely. I feel Frost is catching some strays though. He's proven a good defensive centre. I'd have no issues with a few more years of him. But I'm certainly under no illusions he has star or 1st line potential.

meanwhile trading out vets got us guys like gridin and these ppl cried the most when we brought these picks in. it’d be funny if this wasn’t my favourite team and making these type of mistakes stall rebuilds

no, guys like frost farabee olofsson cooley strome and others doing good during the most crucial part of the szn while attempting to finish with the highest pick in franchise history is not worth gassing up. it sucks and is the most classic flames way to finish out a szn ever

going into an appointment and there better be some better news than strome for a 7th by the time i get out

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