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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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.
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It's not an obituary. I haven't concluded in my mind that they are going to miss the playoffs or that they can't win the division. I'm just disappointed that they are repeating a lot of the same mistakes as last season. Last season things started to click in January and the team was great over winter leading myself and many others to conclude that the slow start was due to a learning curve to a new system and head coach. That excuse doesn't hold water this season. The roster was improved on paper over last season's October roster but you can argue the record would be worse if Smith wasn't playing lights out. I'm just getting a little impatient that's all.