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Originally Posted by Ddavid
You are talking 6 more games until he regains his absolute peak performance, he will still be good tonight and getting better every game which will give us a shot going forward.
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The Flames will have to go 16-8 over their final 24 games to have a shot. That is a .667 winning percentage. They basically would have to play at the pace of Montreal, Pittsburgh, Boston, Chicago or Anaheim the rest of the way to have a shot at 8th place. They would not be able to play crappy hockey like the Kings or Blues, that would not be good enough to make the playoffs. That is the hole the Flames are in, playing as well as the Kings or Blues did in the first half of the season will not be good enough for them to make the playoffs.