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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
1 in a 1000 run? Found some magic?
They played like a team and outworked their opponents every night.
I remember telling everyone who would listen that they were going to go deep in the playoffs. And there were a lot of other people saying the same thing. I don't remember it being any kind of surprise or miracle at all.
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I'll back that up.
The Flames seemingly had been plagued by injury all season, and finally got healthy at the right time. Kipper was a great surprise. I remember the buzz for avid hockey fans was that the upper placed teams did not want to face Calgary in the opening rounds.
The Flames playoff run was a great surprise only to the casual fans who never looked past the standings position.