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Originally Posted by jmerkel3d
I think this team is built to make the playoffs and contend every year. Like any team that needs to learn how to win in he playoffs, we need to go through it, learn how to win in the playoffs, and tweak the team year after year and add supporting pieces that will get you over the hump. That's how it's done.
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In order to learn about the playoffs, you need to be playing playoff hockey. There are lessons to be learned from winning a round or two and coming up short in tough battles against good teams.
The Flames can't even get in long enough to learn any of those lessons. They pretty much get to the dance and can't wait to leave. The only lesson learned this playoff is that the team is nowhere near good enough to compete at this time of year, and changes need to happen.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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