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Originally Posted by CroFlames
So every talking head praises Calgary's fitness level, the players themselves attribute their wins to hard work, and the coach does as well. NHL.com puts out an article reiterating that, and you disagree with said article.
I know I'm smarter than a lot of pundits, but not all of them. You are obviously smarter than all the analysts though.
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Its not about who is smarter, it's about pundits doing what they get paid to do.
They get paid to sell stories. They aren't going to say that they aren't quite sure about the exact combination of factors that led to the Flames scoring a tonne of goals in the third period because that's not easy to watch TV.
The LA Kings are famous for being one of the hardest working teams in hockey and they missed the playoffs last year.
The Flames hired the Kings strength and conditioning coach last offseason. I think its fair to say that the Kings would have been in the same ball park as the Flames in terms of conditioning so there is obviously way more at play than "conditioning" when talking about third period come backs.
If conditioning and hard work were the largest contributing factors to come from behind wins then you would expect the Kings to be up with Calgary at the top of the league last season.
But they weren't.