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Originally Posted by Bingo
Actually last year at the trade deadline Mike Smith had already gone 15 days without a start because he got hurt.
So sure they had some injury luck, but losing their starting goalie on February 11th certainly isn't a team that was riding a wave of nothing but good luck.
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The Flames were not more than a few pts above the make the playoff line last year when Smith was far exceeding expectations.
On Feb 11 56 games in the standings were:
Vegas 76
Nashville 75
Winnipeg 73
St Louis 71
Dallas 70
San Jose 68
Minnesota 66
Calgary 66
Los Angeles 65
Anaheim 65
Colorado 64
Chicago 56
Edmonton 50
Vancouver 50
Arizona 36
The Flames were in 8th spot and 3 pts ahead of being in 11th.
The Flames at that point had lost 2.36M cap to injury
Anaheim 12.5
Vancouver 7.83
LA 5.8
Edmonton 5.03
Colorado 4.75
San Jose 4.15
The very best with Smith, Gaudreau, Monahan, Tkachuk, Gio, Hamilton,Ferland, Jankowski exceeding expectations the Flames were a bubble team.
That is basically the guys that you would want to carry the team doing well.