Agreed with those saying the Flames are showing improvement and overall trending in the right direction. When a team struggled like the Flames did early, it very easy for fans to see inconsistent play, whether it be within game or game to game and get worried that it still means the team isn't playing well. Truth is, even the best teams do. It dominate (very often) for a full 60mins or every night. Granted the Flames are still more wild and frequent in their inconsistency then they should be, more a comment that we should expect the team not to have to slug games out when they aren't playing perfect.
Road trip has to be seen as a positive. 3-2-1 on the longest road trip of the year, 6 in 9 and no Gaudreau, that's pretty sharp. Not quite enough of a winning % to have us make the playoffs if they don't increase, but given it was a hard stretch for the reasons listed above, get a better winning % moving forward is possible.
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