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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Also, is it just me, or are the Flames the lowest profile 2nd seed in the NHL in a long time?
When listening to pundits pontificate on the playoffs, I keep reading about how San Jose and Vegas are dangerous. Vegas is supposed to be the team to beat in the west. St Louis is a team "no one wants to face". San Jose was getting all kinds of adulation when they had won 7 straight, and Winnipeg and Nashville are top teams and still favorites despite recent struggles.
Calgary is leading the West by EIGHT points and have goal differential that's THIRTY goals better than second place Winnipeg.
Boston and Toronto apparently are the second and third best teams in the league and it's a shame they're facing each other in the first round.
Only 7 teams in the last ten years have had a better goal differential. That puts Calgary in the top 8 of 302 teams for goal differential (assuming it doesn't drop significantly in the last 3 games).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't heard anyone talk about them as a favorite to win the West even, nevermind the Cup
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It's really incredible.
I always imagined this day, when the team would be heralded for its arrival to elite status and one of the most promising teams north of the border, capturing the west and ready to make a push for the cup. But astoundingly, they're still as low-key, if not borderline invisible as they were when they were a bubble team for many, many years.
I think it's cause half the country is just caught up (or enamored) in talking about the Tavares/Matthews Maple Leafs.
It will take a deep run to get the national recognition the team deserves.
That's what did it for the Jets last season, that's what did it for the Flames back in '04, and that's what it will take now.
Teams like Edmonton and Toronto for whatever damn reason just get salivated over before they've accomplished anything, as befuddling as it is. Calgary will have to earn all of its praise outside S.AB, and then some.
Is there such thing as a "quiet" Cup? We'll find out I guess.