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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
This was not a convincing win from a top team. I told you in the GDT the Flames don't perform well against middle teams, and I was right. Have to be better.
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The idea is to win. You can't play your best for all 82 games. Not possible.
Really good teams save their efforts for games against other really good teams. And they do enough to win against the weaker teams.
That is what we're seeing now from these guys - enough to win these games. They are 7-1-1 since the Christmas break. In that stretch, their best efforts came against SJ, WIN, CHI, and BOS (which they deserved to win).
Against VAN, DET, PHI, COL and FLA, they cruised.
The only good team that they played poorly against was COL, yet they still managed to win.
Against (current) playoff teams, the Flames are 15-6-3. In their last 10, they are 7-2-1
Against the top 8 teams in the league (excluding the Flames), they are 7-4-2 and haven't lost in regulation to a top 8 team since November.
That's what top teams do to be convincing. I don't need them to trounce the Floridas of the league to be convincing, I want to see how they look against the good teams.