In my mind the flames aren’t as bad as everyone seems to think. They had a 8 or 10 game stretch before they fired the coach that sewered their season. If it was a regular 82 game sched I’m pretty confident they would have passed montreal. Probably the jets as well. I thought Ottawa and Calgary were two of the better teams in the north over the last dozen games or so.
Montreal is in the final 4. You can look at it however you want but even Trotz thinks along the lines of what I stated above. Anyone can beat anyone if one team doesn’t show up. That was the Flames problem in the first half of the year.
The Flames do need some roster moves. But so does almost every team in the league. It’s probably more abnormal to have no moves in the off season. Most teams I would guess turn over 25% of their roster as a minimum.
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