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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
The Oilers last season were not essentially an AHL squad like they are this year. However, if they had managed to win some of those games, they might not have had to face the Ducks and suffered a much different fate than a 4-0 sweep in round #1. Games like this really do matter, especially now, since the 2018 Oilers are stains in the toilet bowl.
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Of course, tonight's game matters. And I have never suggested anything different. But where I beg to differ is in the rather extreme and inflammatory rhetoric that somehow this ONE, individual game carries with it the Flames entire playoff expectations. Such is utter nonsense, and I am sure you understand why.
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Clinging to some flawed logic that this result tonight is meaningless is nothing more than severe hometown bias.
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Again, I never said tonight's game is MEANINGLESS. My contention is that it is just as MEANINGFUL as most other games at this point of this season. I don't get why you would classify that as a "hometown bias," since it is actually an imminently rational response, and quite counter to the extremely emotive and reactionary belief that the results of this SINGLE game will determine the entire rest of the season.
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Four consecutive ho-hum efforts, with all but one game against a team you can consider to be playing at a high level would be beyond crushing for a team coming off of what should have been a significant turning point. If the Flames can muster their best effort at this stage of the season, they quite simply do not have what it takes to be a playoff team in my eyes. It's about the character of the team at this point, much more than it will ever be about the 2 points.
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This is clearly the problem. I think your eyes are so counter-intuitively fixated on this single result that you cannot process the value of it accordingly with respect to a full 82-game season. You can continue to pontificate about how players will feel with a loss, how it will affect them down the road, and what it somehow means with regards to their quality as a playoff team. But in the end these remain your imaginations.
The Flames could get blown out tonight, and then go on another tear to win nine straight. This could happen because it DOES happen. That does not mean the it will happen, but it sure as hell does not also mean that a loss is the proverbial and of their season.