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Originally Posted by dino7c
if the Flames miss the playoffs it has more to do with a 8 game losing streak than one game in March where they lost in OT
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If the Flames miss the playoffs there's a billion things we
could really look to a dozen or more things that add up:
- Not having a scoring winger on the 2nd line
- Backlund missing half the season
- Giordano missing the last quarter of the season
- Byron getting injured and losing all these huge OTs
- Bennett getting sent back down
- Ortio getting sent back down
- Jets and Kings piling up a gazillion Loser Points
- Losing to all these non-Playoff East and Central Division teams
- Mason Raymond
- Deryk Engelland
- Hartley's insistence on Engelland/Smid
- Ondej Pavelec turning into god damn Carey Price his last four games. Like, wat?
But you know what? Most of those are actually positives going into next season.
We'll
still have had:
1) The best record against our own division including a winning record against the defending champs.
2) An awesomely fun season with comebacks galore and "out-corsi'd" wins
3) A better draft pick during a rebuild
4) The best rookie of 2015 regardless of how big and tall an eighteen year old phenom is
5) Some incredible, epic shot blocking displays by Lance Bouma, Kris Russell, and the rest of the team
6)
Not Reto Berra and Joey MacDonald and Leland Irving in net.
7) The best D-Pairing in the NHL
Let's just get hype for the next ten games... not the easiest schedule... but maybe Pavelec stops this B.S. tear he's on. If it comes down to the last game of the year, **** the Jets.