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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I don't worry about other teams as I feel it's up to your team to taken care of business. Bubble teams overly focus on what other teams are doing. I'm not saying the Flames will miss the playoffs but my hopes was that this team could eventually elevate themselves above the Sharks, Blues, Sharks, etc but so far we have seen no indication of them being any better than last year's team that needed a couple of long winning streaks to make the playoffs.
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Good lord. I think this is the third or fourth obituary on the Flames season that I have seen from you in the past two days. You are a relatively level-headed long time poster here, and yet it sounds from this and a few other of your recent posts like the first 10 games of the season are your first with NHL hockey. I only know from the fact of your long-time membership here that you are aware the season is actually 82 games, and a team's record can never be reduced to 10-game microcosms. Surely you know as well as anyone that what has happened through this first sliver of the schedule is probably not a great indicator of how the entire year will unfold. The Vancouver Canucks just beat the Washington Capitals for god's sake!
The good news here for you and everyone else who is distraught by the Flames' 0.500 record is that there are 72 more games, and I can absolutely guarantee that there will be stretches in this time in which the Flames appear unbeatable. Of course, the bad news is that players and coaches are not machines; poor performances will still occur and losses will happen. My advice is to cheer up: celebrate the good, and don't let the bad stuff colour your outlook prematurely.