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Originally Posted by Inferno
All athletes play to win. There's a difference between wanting to win and doing whatever it takes to win.
With the Flames I think there were too many nights where they just expected to win no matter how hard they worked. If they had a good start they figured they could just coast the rest of the way or if they didn't they figured things would just work out until the final 5-10 minutes when they finally got desperate but it was too late.
Too many passengers.
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At some point this year in a GT or PGT I said that the Flames look great - when the opposition lets them look great. They'd score a bunch on Ottawa or Vancouver or Edmonton and a lot of posters said "hey, they look great" when it was obvious that the other team was playing passively and giving the Flames all kinds of room. OTOH I can't recall many wins where the opposition played very well but the Flames were just better.