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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
You’re missing the 25 years of misery which some are sitting on. Sometimes it’s hard not to think you’ve seen this movie before.
Let’s enjoy the win. Best first period Flames have played this year that I can think of. Leafs may have had 8 high danger chances but a whole bunch came after it was 2 to zero.
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25 years of history is irrelevant though when analyzing a team. Don’t get me wrong I understand what the history means to the feelings of a life long fan, but completely irrelevant when judging any individual version of a team. The patterns, or habits of the 1993 Calgary Flames and any version of Flames since then up until at most 4 years ago is as relevant to this years version of the Flames as the 85 Edmonton Oilers are. Meaning there is actually 0 relevance. You can’t use past performance of a Flames team that far back to predict future performance of this team or can’t be used as a until you prove me otherwise argument. Nothing that dictates on ice results of the club is the same, the GM, the coaches and the players....all different.
So I’m all for fans wallowingin the defeat of the history of the club should they chose to do so, but it’s not acceptable as a data point to back up why there negative over reactions about this years club are more justified than someone’s positive overreactions.