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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Do you not see the difference between a winning streak, which usually shows consistent good play and "a loss" which is the world's smallest sample size?
If the team generally is playing poorly despite having good players, that's on the coach at any time. But the Flames have generally played very sound hockey this year. They have special teams holes and individuals sometimes, being human, have bad games. This last game was a snowball effect of numerous catastrophic errors combined with a lack (heh) of incredible saves. Had the Flames been rewarded after a pretty good start I think they win that game. The same team, however, played an incredibly good game just prior to that one.
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And there is where I completely disagree. Of our 10 wins, I give Smith credit for a majority of them. Of our 8 losses, I blame the goaltending on a minority of them. Basically, I think goaltending had covered up for the team not playing sound hockey.