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Or 3 wins in their last 10 games, which is .300 hockey. It's easy to cherry pick good stretches to support your argument but that doesn't really refute my point.
They're in 9th in the conference. I'm looking at the season as a whole. 9th is not good enough. No other way to spin it for me. I expected higher and I still do.
If you expected a bubble team that's fine, but I didn't and I still don't.
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That is a direct result of poor stretches last year and there's nothing that can be done about that now.
It's not Cherry picking to point out how well and tight they've largely been playing over six weeks.
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have won or held a lead at some point in the third period of 17 consecutive games
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speaks to how much better defensively the team has been playing over that stretch. There is a noticeable difference.
You can spin it any way you want. When we look at the difference and consistency through the last six weeks, it's definitely a team playing very well.
Expecting that we're going to run nearly unbeaten through the rest of the year to make up for the slow start and inconsistency in 2017 isn't at all realistic or logical.