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Originally Posted by Bandwagon In Flames
tkflames if your point is that the Flames are doing well only because they're in an easy stretch of games, I think you are completely out to lunch and have wasted a bunch of time if that was actually the main goal of your analysis.
The Flames have looked great against some of the top teams in the NHL so far this year. When GG's system is being executed properly, it seems to work against any quality of competition.
We are the only team to Shutout Columbus and the only team to beat them in regulation in the past 12 games.
We dominated Anaheim 8-3. A team who routinely makes us look like an AHL team.
We beat Minnesota 2 times and they are a hard team to squeeze points from. They have the highest goal differential in the Western Conference.
We are 1-1 against St. Louis and if not for Elliott we would of won both of them.
We are 1-0 against San Jose.
We are 1-2 against Chicago but we deserved to win the last game.
Worth mentioning the other two good teams in LA and Philly where the Flames looked exhausted and played terrible hockey.
And also we lost our first 3 games against lower competition (Edmonton, Vancouver).
The problem wasn't necessarily the quality of competition, it was the amount of back-to-back games, road games and lack of practices while trying to learn a new system.
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I think you may have missed the point of my original post completely. My point was, as fans we react too negatively during the bad times, and too optimistically during the good times. We had an extremely tough start for a number of reasons posted and re-iterated over the entirity of this thread. I am in full agreement with this. However, I would be cautious to assume that this latest success is all because the team has now bought into GG's system. There are definitely improvements, but systems look a lot better against weaker oponents.
Summary: I am in the cautiously optimistic that this team has seen real improvement, but still in the wait and see camp until at least game 45 on the effectiveness of Glen's system.