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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Winning a game in the Honda center is the only improvement I've seen this season to date. The issue with last season is that like the Hartley season of all the 3rd period comebacks, banking on 10 game winning streaks is not sustainable. The team simply can't find itself in a situation where they are .500 or below at the mid point of a season because it's simply not practical to expect a winning streak will come along to get the team back into the thick of the playoffs. The point of the argument is that the 16 straight games they won last season represents 20% of the season so you are left with a team that played below .500 hockey for 80% of the season. Chances are if the team's play doesn't markedly improve from that they will not get the team record winning streak and the team finishes out of the playoffs. There's no other way to spin it other than the team simply hasn't been good enough long enough under Gulutzan. I'm not advocating his firing today but the .500 play can't last for the majority of the season again.
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I don't see the difference between relying on a winning streak versus those wins coming at a more even pace, with losses interspersed. Are you saying you feel differently if the Flames went win-loss with an extra win thrown in every fifth game or so?