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Originally Posted by 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.
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That is as average of a schedule as you are going to get. 8 teams in the top 15
7 teams in the bottom 15
4 games against bottom third of the league
5 games against the top third of the league
The part of this schedule that makes it concerning is the volume of games on the road and volume of games in a short duration.