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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I have to disagree. Even in the three bad games in January a lot of people could see that the team was much better than the results they were producing. I think reasonable fans were those who expected a lot better down the stretch from a team that was clearly not playing to its potential.
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Yeah, Flames went 9-4 in December and "Playoff positivity" thread was created early January, and by that time there were already plenty of converts like myself.
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Originally Posted by Itse
I now feel relatively confident that we'll see playoff hockey in Calgary this season, barring something anomalous like a huge injury streak. Might even win a round.
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That's me January 12th on that thread, and it's not like I was alone, just one of the lost lambs who had found faith again
(Still happy to eat crow for my miserable attitude earlier.)
If you look at the playoff snake thread, there's stuff like this...
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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
What's the playoff point cut off projection right now? 93-95 points?
So we need something like 30-20-3 over the next 53 games?
That's not unreasonable at all.
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That's from early December, and I think is a good example of what the positivity was like a that point. The Flames had started to look better and very imprtantly, the division was looking weak. Lots of reasons to have faith for reasonable fans.
In any case, up and down season for sure.