It's hard not to look back on those personal success stories and see a team on the cusp. I look at the whole thing and see how, as a team, 'Was there progress?' I break it down through training camp, preseason, parts of regular season, making the playoffs, first round, second round, things like that. "It wasn't really about inability or negatives or anything. It's taking that and seeing how we can improve on that. "Bottom line, there's no long-time goals ever reached unless you reach short-term goals and that was a thing as an organization had to be - for sure - reset," Sutter explained. They're in the prime of their careers, have elevated their status and are legitimately some of the top players in the game now. Back then, they suffered a first-round loss to the Colorado Avalanche, but for that core - with Johnny Gaudreau, Matthew Tkachuk, Elias Lindholm, Andrew Mangiapane and more - that was their first real taste of it.īut all were either at or under the age of 25 at the time. As a head coach, that's how I look at it - and that's definitely how the organization should look at it."īoth Sutter and General Manager Brad Treliving agree that the 'window' for this group opened in 2019. "You can't talk about next year or last year or anything.
That 23 to whatever it is for our group - 27, that age group, is the most important part, right? Did those guys show progress? Because they're the guys that the team has either under contract or has rights to. "The most important part is that your group has to stick together. I've been through that and done it and failed at it. "And when you say that, that's a four-to-six-year thing, for sure. "The only way you can ever become a Stanley Cup champion is to make the playoffs over and over and over and over, and build on that," Sutter said. Video: "Make sure we're a better trained team"īut, as we've come to learn over the past few weeks, especially, a run at Lord Stanley is no small task. The Stanley Cup talk takes over the airwaves and regardless of how the previous year went, some teams truly believe they have as good of a shot as any to take home the prize. Typically, in those bright-eyed and bushy-tailed days of the campaign, all 32 teams have grander ambitions.
16, 2021, the Flames had a singular goal in mind: Make the playoffs.
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