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Originally Posted by jayswin
Elite goaltending has been directly responsible for some of those wins.
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Absolutely, but not exclusively. Smith has been great, but I don’t think there is a single game after opening night where the Flames skaters were outclassed all night long. Even in the LA game the Flames looked more to have run out of gas than anything.
And moreover, for those few games that might be considered “steals” by the Flames there are at least one or two they have lost in which they should probably have won.
The point being that all things being equal, the Flames are not “lucky” to be over .500.