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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Just 9 games ago the Flames were in the single digits. I wouldn't even count the last a couple weeks here as injuries and call ups have altered the numbers beyond repair. For 90% of this season, this team won a lot of close games and were rarely blown out. Actually, I remember there was a long stretch where this team didn't give up more than 3 goals for something like 2 months. That's the team I would look at, not this current minor league line up.
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Single digits negative, or even positive, still get you nowhere near the playoffs. They did have a great run of low scoring games, but lost more than their fair share of them.
This team at its best fixed the PK, played 50/50 5 on 5, but was pretty hopeless on PP save a few brief spurts, and came down to earth 3 on 3. The result was being in the playoff mix by a few points, but vulnerable to bad fortune as occurred with injuries. If they had better offence, particularly PP, they should have been comfortably in a divisional spot and been better able to weather adversity.
I believe the season was lost as much from missed opportunity as from misfortune.