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Originally Posted by dino7c
Fact is Flames will be one or two wins short...they weren't out of it 2 months ago.
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IMO that's a mirage.
Despite their pretty severe injury problems, whenever Montreal needed to do something to stay ahead of us, they did. They sucked their way through many games where they still somehow managed to take home the points they needed when they really needed them, and we could never, at any point in the season, match that.
When the distance between us and Montreal grew to 8-10 points we would make up some ground and then Montreal would put in a little more effort and we would fall on our faces and then it was 8-10 points again.
At the end of the season Montreal did just enough to make sure we can't catch them, and not a bit more. That's why it doesn't matter that we could, now that the season is effectively over already, make it look like we were close. What matters is that Montreal had an easy time making sure we can't actually catch them.
Those 2 points might as well be a million points when there's no more games left to play.
Or that's how I see it at least.
Montreal is not a great team or even a good team, but they were pretty obviously still better than us.