[I_H8_Crawford]

It was a shameful performance by the Flames.

They were flat out DOMINATED in 4/5 games, and relied on heroics from Smith to even win Game 1.

Outside of Tampa, the other teams experiencing disappointment at least put up a fight in their series.

You can easily make the case that the Flames were the WORST TEAM in the first round, even factoring in Tampa's sweep - Tampa was bad, but they weren't Flames bad.

EDIT: Want to add, it's getting tiring to hear this was a "learning experience" for the team... you mean to tell me that getting swept by the Ducks 2 years ago didn't help Gaudreau, Monahan, Tkachuk, Gio, Brodie, Backlund learn at all?? How about the 5 game elimination by the Ducks 4 years ago (Gio excluded from that one of course)? Either this team is full of stupid players who take FOREVER to learn, or they are full of players who can't raise their game.