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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Wanted to think that we were just drastically underperforming
But with things as is under Ward, our baseline is just plain bad.
Every few games we show up for a game or two, otherwise the group is quite poor this year.
This series tells you a lot, even if Ottawa has been playing better of late. At the very least they should be playing them evenly on a bad day if they're a good team.
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I don't think our effort/execution varies very much game to game. The randomness of the sport, and goaltending have been the only things that vary night to night. Flames generally come out, play "hard" and dumb, skate around the perimeter a whole bunch and accomplish nothing - just like they did under Gulutzan. Sometimes Rittich/Markstrom look amazing, and we gather some points. Sometimes the opposition's goalie falls on their face.
...the whole season just sucks.