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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I think you hit the nail on the head. They are 5-5 and our expectations are so low that's considered a good start. An expansion team can start 7-1 yet the Flames seem incapable of ever having a truly good start to a season. That's frustrating and I'm not feeling too good about the fact that they are on pace to miss the playoffs. Now it's only 1/8 of the season but what if they don't go on the long winning streaks this season to balance out their .500 play?
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But this fact (that Vegas is 7-1) doesn't give you pause about making early assumptions based on the mediocre start?
Talent usually wins out in the end, and there's nothing about this team that tells me they will do worse than last year. There's also nothing about the competition that tells me more teams in the conference will improve than those that will regress a bit. Leaving Calgary in a pretty good spot.
Calgary has virtually the same record as Anaheim, Minnesota and SJ. I see all of those teams making the POs. Calgary has a worse record right now than LA, Vegas and Vancouver, at least two of which are not PO bound (I suppose LA could make it with spit and duct tape).