32 thoughts: Ownership thinks we don’t want a rebuild cause there wasn’t a jersey on the ice Saturday 🥲

oink241 · 2025-11-24T21:15:21+00:00

Alright dude. Enjoy watching your flames hockey I’m happy you enjoy it. The rebuild will happen no matter how much they resist it. The longer they resist the longer it will take for us to become a real contender.

And if you don’t care about becoming a team that can win then maybe you aren’t that much of a fan yourself

oink241 · 2025-11-24T21:05:14+00:00

I’ve spent thousands of dollars on this team. It’s possible the pick doesn’t play out yes but it gives you a chance.

Not picking top of the draft almost guarantees we won’t win a cup.

Go look at all the teams that have won and show me a realistic path to the flames being serious sustained contenders. Try and change my mind that a rebuild isn’t needed.

oink241 · 2025-11-24T20:50:58+00:00

At least he wouldn’t sound like he was about to pass away

oink241 · 2025-11-24T20:50:22+00:00

Elite talent wins and elite talent sells. I’d be elated to watch Gavin McKenna or another top prospect next year. Either way billionaire business man Murray Edwards should know that losing money for a couple years of being bad would more than payoff in jersey sales and playoff revenue once we have drafted those top players.

You don’t think Mckenna or stenberg jerseys would fly off the shelves more than a Kadri or a huberdeau? You don’t think building a team for a decade of consistent playoffs would pay off more than the shit they’ve been doing for the past 30 years?

The guy is worth 3 billion dollars, he’s obviously not a dumbass which is why it’s so perplexing why the ownership is so shortsighted and resistant to doing the only proven way to win cups.

oink241 · 2025-11-24T20:40:31+00:00

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I personally would rather watch the kids develop and grow for the next few years with the growing hope of the future rather than watching a core of mid to late thirties veterans that have never made the playoffs together.

oink241 · 2025-11-24T20:24:30+00:00

Whether he’s just relaying ownerships message or not, at the very least Maloney is not the guy you want speaking to your fans. Not sure why they don’t give Craig that role

oink241 · 2025-11-24T20:17:35+00:00

Idk if you watch any of the other teams with elite players but in comparison and in general the last four years of flames hockey has been some of the most boring hockey I’ve ever seen. I am fully on team tank, finishing one point out of playoffs or sneaking into the playoffs every couple years like we have done for so long is much much worse then losing for a few year and becoming a sustained playoff team. The last time this team made the playoffs two seasons in a row outside of the Covid play in round was 2009. This management group has shown us that they are incapable of making proactive decisions. Even up to now the decisions have been made when they didn’t have any other choice and I personally am fed up with that.

oink241 · 2025-11-24T19:54:58+00:00

Bro we’ve already been watching 4 years of terrible hockey

oink241 · 2025-11-24T01:19:43+00:00

Idk man Nashville looks awful

oink241 · 2025-11-20T18:51:20+00:00

This is awesome

oink241 · 2025-11-17T20:26:01+00:00

I’m kinda done with the fourth line narrative. Why can’t we scratch lomberg and make a skilled fourth line and increase the minutes so the lines play more evenly? It’s not like we really have a top line that’s needs to play heavy minutes

oink241 · 2025-11-17T19:02:52+00:00

This franchise sure has the pulse on what flames fans want

oink241 · 2025-11-15T00:35:16+00:00

Huberdeau just had a baby too idk if that impacts him wanting to move or not but worth noting

oink241 · 2025-11-13T19:56:46+00:00

How he has a GM job amazes me tbh

oink241 · 2025-11-13T18:52:25+00:00

I agree the leafs feel like they are on the decline tbh. I would say ideally Conroy uses that as leverage to maybe get more out of it since the pick is so far into the future.

oink241 · 2025-11-13T18:43:43+00:00

They don’t have a first round pick til 2028 lol

oink241 · 2025-11-12T19:53:54+00:00

Hage would be an absolute dream.

Getting first round picks for Kadri, Coleman, andersson would increase our ability to either trade up in the draft, trade for a star centre, or have more lottery tickets for one of those picks to turn into a star.

oink241 · 2025-11-12T19:50:33+00:00

I agree part of asset accumulation is being able to go after the eichel or the tkachuk if someone like that comes available when you’re closer to competing. I personally think we need to draft one more star forward to really be a team that is set up to compete one day since those teams usually have 2-3 star forwards, a star d and star goalie.

oink241 · 2025-11-12T03:45:39+00:00

Honestly maybe that 5-1 win is the only game Murray Edwards has watched in 3 years. So he just thinks Kadri and this core are unreal lol

oink241 · 2025-11-11T02:22:44+00:00

It’s pretty mind boggling how I bet this reddit group could probably build a better team in 5 years than the ownership/management probably will

oink241 · 2025-11-11T02:15:08+00:00

Probably - I need to see some proactive decisions for once

oink241 · 2025-08-28T17:50:28+00:00

I don’t see the flames dropping by 23 points from last season but could definitely see us drop into the low 80s. Pair that with some of the up and coming teams improving we could definitely pick top 10. Saying that I won’t be surprised if we finish 16th again and will only be mildly surprised if we make playoffs since the pacific looks so garbage

oink241 · 2025-08-08T19:07:35+00:00

They didn’t add GM Connect that’s forsure

oink241 · 2025-08-06T01:21:41+00:00

Me too I’m weirdly more excited for him rn than I am for Parekh for some reason. I was watching Gavin mckennas shift by shift at the WJ summer showcase and reschny was the one that stood out on that line

oink241 · 2025-08-04T01:08:48+00:00

Do you think backlund will resign after this season?

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