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Old 12-10-2015, 09:23 AM   #123
Erick Estrada
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Originally Posted by heep223 View Post
If the Flames play .600 hockey the rest of the way, they will finish with 90 points which may be good enough. Since October, they've been playing at .570 and continuing to get better and better.

I agree re expectations, but this is not that unrealistic. I maintain that this isn't a bad hockey team, it's a playoff hockey team with horrible goaltending.
Defensively they still have gaffes but less than the tire fire that was the first 1.5 months of the season. I simply don't see a fix for the goaltending as Ramo has elevated his game from horrific to his normal which is below average goaltender. I still cringe every time a team takes a bad angle shot and he goes down with his pad in the same position that cost them points against the Jets early in the season. He's a good reactionary goaltender but the rest of his game including his positional play is poor.
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