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Originally Posted by Textcritic
The Flames had a terrible power play heading into the 2017 playoffs, so I wouldn’t put ANY stock in how it’s current performance will translate in three weeks.
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What an odd recollection. In the first three months of the season NO ONE was having any success shutting down the top line. They were tearing the entire League apart pretty consistently.
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I get the sense from a lot of posts this season that some people just can’t help but worry. If they’re not worried about the goalies, they worry about the power play, they worry about secondary scoring, or they worry about the top line. The fact is that none of this matters much right now, and history shows that things can turn around in a hurry.
I guess I am just not very worried, and rather overcome by excitement for the playoffs. I believe this team will go far.
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It’s not an odd assertion at all. Look at the games when the Flames were shutout. Opposition teams were playing very tight checking games and it wasn’t that they were being stymied, the top line was legitimately shut down in those games. That was my first inkling that they may have trouble in those style games and my prediction has seemingly come to fruition. The New Jersey game was a bit of an aberration as they played the top line extremely loose and gave them all kinds of time and space that’s not typical during this time.
Lastly, the regular season is over in 2 weeks and there’s nothing wrong with discussing things that could become problematic for the playoffs. If there’s obvious and glaring issues, then they can be brought up, after all, this is a forum to discuss the Flames. It’s not something trivial like criticizing text or punctuation.
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