I love that the Flames media are ho hum about a 3 goal, 4 point game and tempering excitement because they're drawing on wisdom of years past and it isn't lost on them that things don't always translate to real games, and doing the little things right all over the ice is arguably as important or more so than points in a preseason game.
Toronto and Edmonton are amazingly naive every year, despite the long list of names that didn't pan out after racking up points in the preseason. They're consistently blinded by pretty plays when that has very little bearing on how the player will fare as a day to day nhler.
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