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Originally Posted by Table 5
Neither LA or Chicago were cinderella teams. They were both quality teams either coasting or hiccuping their way through the season, but nobody ever looked them as also-rans once the playoffs started.
The reality is Cinderella teams don't win Cups. They might make noise, but they pretty much never win. Once in a while you get good teams who go through bad stretches that make them seem less potent (not unlike like the Pens), but in the end the cream pretty much always rises to the top. The 04 Flames/06 Oilers type teams don't win cups.
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This isn't a Cinderella team. They've been hanging around the playoff picture all year while having PLENTY of hiccups of their own.
This is the former, a quality team that has hiccuped it's way to this point. The way the Flames have played, the way they've been talked about here, you'd think we were dead last, not holding down a playoff spot for most of the season.
We're in the 2nd wildcard position when most things have gone poorly. Gaudreau has been average to bad, Elliott just figured out how to play goal a month ago, Brodie is lost, Wideman was our 4th defenceman two weeks ago...
This isn't a Cinderella team. If Gaudreau catches fire, or Elliott finally returns to form, or Brodie suddenly puts it back together? We stand a good chance of going far. If none of those things happen and we just play out the stretch the same way we've been playing lately, then we make the playoffs.
This team has been as infected with "hiccups" as teams get and we're still right there.
Show me why this team is different than the 8th place LA team that won? They were steady around 8th or lower most of the season, including being out of the playoffs on Feb 24.