The difference is the Oilers talked about playoffs and matchups since December. Flames fans talking about it with 15 games left and a 9 point buffer with more ROWs than all the teams around them is pretty different. Their chances are 96% for good reason.
Also why does the schedule suddenly scare all the skeptics with the kind of hockey they have been playing for a month and a half now? They beat top teams in there. And if I'm not mistaken also swept their last east coast roadie. It won't be easy but I don't forsee them suddenly playing badly enough to put up the kind of record it would take to fall out of it.
As for catching Edmonton. Yes our position ahead of them is tenuous at best, they'll likely take it back another couple times before all is said and done and very possibly end up ahead. But the whole point is them and their media talked like the flames would never catch them. And here we are and they have. So this is about rightfully sticking it to their fan base and spector for talking smack mid season.
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