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Originally Posted by Jason14h
https://www.si.com/hockey/news/past-...out-the-decade
Hockey news has us 21st over the last decade in Dec 2019 - Colorado, Winnipeg would easily have past us after last season. Carolina arguably. Same with Toronto. So going by hockey news after last season we would have ranked somewhere between 24/25. Very close to my bottom 5 statement (It's over past 10 years not 15, but it's not like the 5 years before that helped us out)
But you didn't acctually quote a ranking. You made up a non-sensical rating and then I guess quoted yourself. It wasn't even a algorithm or something that took multiple factors into play.
You literally have said playoff success means nothing to you, so you rank the Flames 17th based on their regular season play. And then said we are jinxed and that's the reason we haven't had playoff success.
It's nonsensical. There is nothing left to argue because you are now quoting yourself as a supporting argument for yourself and resorting to jinxes to defend the team.
You must realize how far this argument has gone off base for you...
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When you take into account season ranking and playoff series wins I am very confident Calgary is not in the bottom 5 of the league since year 2000 or whatever years you want to cherry pick. Looking at the article you quoted Toronto and Carolina do not even come close to moving past Calgary given their (imo dumb) metrics. Meanwhile using their metrics Detroit falls fast. Calgary probably drops to 22-23 range with that particular metric (they takes into account personnel trophies??)
Columbus, Florida, Edmonton, Winnipeg(Atlanta), Phoenix, and Buffalo all rank well below Calgary's success for the last 20 years pretty much no matter what metric you use.
Looking back at Jay Random's argument he is not trying to say Calgary has been a good franchise or even better than mediocre. The argument I keep seeing lately is Calgary "is one of the worst" or a "terrible" nhl franchise and I think he is just pointing out by all available metrics we are below average but no where near the worst. Calgary has enjoyed similar success as Toronto but unlike Toronto they have won a cup in the last 40 years. None of the Canadian teams really should be happy with the trajectory of their franchises for the last 30 years (except maybe Montreal since they have at least won in the last 30 years and just went to the Finals).
Anyways I am just tired of the hyperbole. We all should demand better but fans don't need to overreact to media rumours or exaggerate how bad things have been. I think we all want the same end result so no point in hyperbole.