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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The bigger issue for the Flames and the reason they likely have very little chance of making the playoffs is because of parity as the Flames would have to leapfrog four other teams just to be tied with Nashville. It's one thing to gain ground on one or two teams but there's too many teams right now between the Flames and a playoff spot. They would need to go on another 8 game winning streak and after that still play at a high level as winning 8 in a row and then playing .500 or worse after won't get it done. It's getting close to time to evaluate players that can be moved at the trade deadline.
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Agreed.
At the onset of this trip which had 4 winnable games the Flames needed to 3-2-0 for 8 straight 5 game segments in order to get in according to a few sites forecasts. That in itself is a tall order as that's .600 hockey the rest of the way and the Flames made the playoffs last year at .591
But they go 1-3-1 on this trip meaning now they have 7 segments left and have to go 3-2-0 for 4 of these segments (as before) and 3-1-1 for the other three.
Same math as you ... win 8 in a row and then .500 the rest of the way would also get it done.
It's not likely enough to miss out on the good decisions that can be made now to help build this very young team to where it needs to go.