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Originally Posted by heep223
I wouldn't call below average goaltending, bad injury problems including their best player during the stretch run and an 8 game losing streak "pretty much everything going right".
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Hiller posted his best save percentage since 2010/2011 and Ramo posted his best save percentage ever.
I'm not sure how you could have expected anything better than that regarding goaltending.
Things didn't go fantastic in Calgary in regards to injuries. They were 12th in man games lost in the league. Their only real injuries to key players however were to Giordano and Backlund. They both played the majority of the season.
The Flames top line and other top 4 Dmen stayed healthy.
I wouldn't say they faced any abnormally bad streches of injuries like Pittsburgh had to face when they had multiple top four defenders out at the same time for instance.
I wouldn't say those were particularily bad injury problems. More like average.
An 8 game losing streak is probably balanced out by having a winning record in shootouts/OT, multiple come from behind wins, and extremely high ES shooting % as a team.
All in all I'd say the Flames had mostly everything go right. I think they need less right to make the playoffs this season than last. However I believe the Kings are bouncing back, and San Jose improved their team as well after signing slugs like John Scott last season.