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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's one thing for perennial playoff teams to be able to coast through the last few weeks of the season and then throttle up for the playoffs but this was a new experience for the Flames to be playing games down the stretch that didn't matter other than in the standings and it appears they just couldn't flip the switch to match the intensity of the Avalanche. It certainly is something you can chalk up as part of the learning process but a lot of the players on this roster have been around for the last 3 playoff series where the team has gone 2-12 over 14 games so there are some warning flags. I'm not so sure you can dismiss just how poor players like Backlund, Tkachuk (probably gets a bit more slack because of his age), and Gaudreau in particular have been in the last three playoff series the team has played in. Treliving has to find out what the problem is with these players or if maybe they are the problem in the playoffs and not the solution.
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Peters said he'd approach the end of the season way different next time, FIW.