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Originally Posted by burnitdown
Are you talking last year, when they lost the series 4-2 against the Preds. Mackinnon was dominant and they gave the top ranked Preds a run for their money.
I don't think there was any thought of blowing up the team after that. They improved from 48 pts to 95 pts and built up a young core from high draft picks after missing the playoffs the previous few years. I don't really think they're a comparable for us at all.
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You can always get into the weeds and cherry pick things to justify whatever you want. Fact is, AVS have been a fairly similar version of growth to the Flames. We can find examples of our core playing well in the playoffs too, back in 2015. Also the AVS have never had to deal with what our core did this year, expectations of being a top seed.
Point being, you can and will justify your point around this core not being good enough if you want, but you could also do the same in the other direction, it’s called selective reasoning. Last year people were on this core will never make the playoffs train, that was clearly wrong.