[Caged Great]

Realistically, a team can only afford 30-32 regulation losses and make the playoffs.

We are 11 games in and we're already at 6. That means those will need to be made up. The Flames will have to win a larger portion of games to claw their way back into things.

The worrying thing is that the next games this month are

SJ - (T-9th)
LA - (T-23rd)
ANA - (T-16th)
DAL - (T-23rd)
NYR - (4th)
MIN - (T-5th)
ARI - (30th)
CHI - (T-5th)
DET - (T-5th)
BUF - (T-14th)
CBJ - (T-18th)
BOS - (T-14th)
PHI - (13th)
NYI - (T-23rd)
TOR - (T-18th)

8 Vs top 15 teams, 7 vs bottom teams with 4 of those being against teams that made the playoffs last year.

In other words, fun.