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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
I agree, flames are a much better team than they were in the beginning of the season.
That's not my issue, the issue is when people start throwing out "if we would have 5 more wins we'd be an elite team". Well...so would the Oilers. 5 more wins and the Canucks are comfortably in the playoffs.
We are a much better team because we learned how to play the right way. As bad as Wideman is and was and how bad Grossman was, TJ Brodie, Monahan, Gaudreau, Hamilton, Gio, Bennett all decided they'd take the first 10-15 games off. Those are our top guys and they weren't ready.
We didn't deserve to have more wins in the beginning of the season.
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I do usually agree with fans throwing out the 'a few more wins' scenarios and making everything seem much more positive than it really is.
However, one thing I do look at is definitive periods of a season, and digging to see if in fact there are underlying reasons to give credence to such notions. In the case of the Flames this season, having a new coach come in and implement a totally different system which was hard on the Flames is a good rationale. This rationale is also further buoyed by historical data on other teams as well.
If it was a handful of games here, another handful there - then yeah, it is nothing but fans blowing smoke up their own butts. I don't feel this is the case at all. If someone wants to argue that the poor streak contained between two good periods has merit to be disregarded, I would disagree vehemently. Start of the season with a new coach? I think it is fair.