In the summer of 2018, the Calgary Flames had a problem. Coming off a disappointing regular season result, management took their time to examine the team’s issues and enacted several big changes.
Heading into the summer of 2019, the Flames are coming off a bitterly disappointing playoff exit. But given the progress the team made over the prior year, it’s crucial that the Flames make the right changes and don’t try to make big changes for the sake of making changes.
2018’s Summer of Sweeping Changes
It might be easier to detail what didn’t go wrong for the Flames in 2017-18 rather than try to list out the things that caused challenges. Between roster construction issues, challenges with deployments by the coaching staff and a slew of late season injuries that exposed the team’s lack of farm depth, big changes were needed for the Flames.
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