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Originally Posted by burnitdown
This loss hurts. People can say it's just a meaningless point in January but those points all matter...especially when it seems like there'll be a good chunk of teams finishing between 90 and 98 points this year, and not all of them will miss the playoffs. You give away another 4-5 pts over the remaining games and that's the difference of missing the playoffs and potentially having home ice in the first round.
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Flames went on a 7 game winning streak, and then lost two games in OT due to awful performances on home ice...and guess what? After LA beats Vancouver tonight, the Flames will be on the outside of the playoffs.
I liked what Rhett and Boomer went on about today - what does this team want to be? Are we supposed to excuse the awful performance on Saturday because they were coming off break? How about last night? When can you expect to, and actually, beat the worst team in hockey? It's not like we got beat while playing well, because then you can excuse it. The last two games were poor efforts and lacked focus/execution.
This team hasn't been able to keep it together. It's still an uphill battle to make the playoffs, and they're going to kill themselves in the standings if they continue to put out efforts like they did on Saturday and last night.
The effort level over these last two games are how you fall out of a playoff race that you just pushed hard to get into.