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Originally Posted by transplant99
Actually OT was not part of the regular season until 83/84 iirc.
It was win, loss or tie.
Which is why the Flames are a .500 team now or 50 years ago. OT/SO losses just replaced tie games.
1-0-1 now.......1 win 1 loss. 3 pts.
1-0-1 then......1 win 1 tie 3pts.
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Sorry transplant (nothing personal) but if you are old enough, back then people would say a team is x amount of games over ,500.
So if a team ended at 41-31-8 (Flames in 78), the team was 10 games above ,500. and not 2 as some are saying on this site.
They always subtracted the losses to the wins to get this number.
The 8 ties don't mean a thing. It's like kissing your own sister! That was the saying back then.
Now with the younger generation, first we lose a planet and now this new way of computing?
To me Flames are 1 game over ,500 as we speak and will make it 2 after tonight.