Some posters saying "let's make the playoffs and see what happens" is the goal of every team, that's just not true. You think the Leafs goal this year is to just make the playoffs and see what happens? Or the Oilers? Or the Capitals in the years before they won the cup?
Making the playoffs and holding on for dear life isn't the goal of successful teams, it's the expectation. It's lower than the expectation even. Making the playoffs should be the bottom rung of the ladder of a contender or successful team, not the goal.
Maybe the goal of a young up and coming team with no where to go but up, but that goal is just a stepping stone to bigger expectations.
That's not the Flames, and Making the playoffs should have been the first rung of our ladder when our core was young, not when they are in their prime.
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