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Originally Posted by Elmer
According to Man Games lost the Flames have been the second least injured team this year behind the Capitals, Other than 10 games missed by Johnny and 12 from Verseeg what adversity has Calgary faced?
In comparison Edmonton has the 4th most man games lost. None this year were to significant players (Nurse/Pouliot/Hendricks the only regular starters) so I wouldn't say they were all that significant either.
Don't the Flames get 3 2nd half back to backs this week against the division? That argument is getting played out.
Last year the following players spent time on LTIR: McDavid, RNH, Eberle, Pouliot, Klefbom, so maybe last years adversity made the Oilers record last year worse than it should have been and the players this year are performing at the same level just more often.
As for Talbot carrying the team and being over played, I can't seem to recall Flames fans stating that Kiper was overplayed between 2005-2011 when he played a minimum of 71 games a year or apologizing to other teams when he stole games.
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Holy crap! Talk about coming out of the woodwork! You just wake up from a coma or something?