It really is interesting how far ranging the evaluations are of last night's performance by the Flames. I thought it was a close, hard-fought game against a good team that could have gone either way and I was not frustrated by the result. Maybe its because my expectations for the team, in the second/third year of a rebuild, are bottom third of the league, maybe mid-range tops. Viewed as that level of team, last night's game was a solid performance with a lot of promising developments re- the effort and play of the youngsters, great goaltending, slump-busting points by our new core players . . . The average to lousy play of futureless, contract-obligated vets really doesn't mean much to me this season.
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