[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Lucky23

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Thomas Drance: "The Calgary Flames aren't just not a playoff team, they're actively really bad.

Sure they give an honest effort every night, upgraded in net, have been performing well with their top-centermen all injured, and have a very legitimate top-pair. That's all positive news, but that's about it. This team still has a 19-year-old top-line center, no credible forward depth to speak of, and no top-end offensive talent up front. Over the course of 82 games, that will catch up to them.

In the early going they've ridden extremely favorable bounces at both ends of the rink, but they're the second worst team in the NHL at controlling the flow of play at five-on-five (or, put another way, the worst team in the NHL non-Sabres category). This Flames team is going to run into a stretch of brutal losses soon enough, and all of the feel good early season story lines about their super duper comeback-ability and effortiness will be exposed for the bankrupt, repetitive fraud that it is."

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