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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's been very encouraging but lets not get ahead of ourselves as the Flames are what the standings say they are and it's not very good. Warrener was saying while their play has been great as of late that it wont translate into next season because players are playing with no pressure and nothing to lose. Come game one of the 2013/14 regular season the points matter again and players grip the stick more and overthink things. I believe this is true because we have seen a lot of teams win in garbage time that haven't translated into the next season.
All of that said as long as they keep up the work ethic and gradually infuse talent there's no reason to think that the team can't gradually improve season over season. The team is still 2-3 years away from playing meaningful hockey in March/April.
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The Flames are playing against teams that want to get more points to end their season. Let's take last night for example, we're playing spoiler, it's not like San Jose wasn't trying last night. San Jose is trying to stay ahead of Anaheim, they wanted these points. I think the Flames are playing with pressure. I think they are already playing playoff-type hockey, Hartley said it himself.