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Originally Posted by Phil Russell
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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This is exactly how I felt after the game as well. Hard fought, close game. Probably wasn't as close if not for the great play from Ramo, but their goalie also played great.
No team, especially this one, is ever going to win 82 games in a season.