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Originally Posted by MillerTime GFG
I'll bet this exact post has been made for the last 7 seasons after game 2. Yet here we are, the same team and still...oh so average.
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And there are probably 15 other fanbases saying the same thing. There are about 8 Elite Teams, 7 Bad Teams, and 16 Average teams. That's just the NHL with a salary cap era.
If you look over the last 5 seasons there are:
-8 Teams with a points percentage over .600: Tampa Bay, Washington, Boston, Pittsburgh, Vegas, Toronto, Nashville, St.Louis
-16 Teams Between .531 and .596: Minnesota, Winnipeg, Carolina, Columbus, New York, Florida, Calgary, Philadelphia, Edmonton, San Jose, Dallas, Colorado, Montreal, New York, Chicago, Anaheim
-7 Bad Teams below a .495 points percentage: LA, Arizona, New Jersey, Vancouver, Ottawa, Buffalo, Detroit
5 years is a long time so there are teams that move in and out of these Buckets but this is how it generally works. Nashville/St.Louis probably more in the middle now, Colorado and Carolina moved up to top tier. Vancouver probably more in the middle tier with Chicago dropping down.
It is frustrating that the Flames re-build was rushed, and that we didn't really get that true elite center that would push us into the top tier, but that's the same story for the majority of the NHL. Takes a lot of luck and good timing to end up in that top tier.
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Originally Posted by djsFlames
First few games always get blown out of proportion.
It is unfortunate that we have another multi day break, as people are bound to stew over a very small sample size.
There is another 40 two game sets.
40 of them. And each will come with a different prevailing storyline.
Exactly zero conclusions should be drawn from these two games except encouragement from the uptempo game they have brought so far.
Much, much better than two poorly played games. It doesn't seem like it, but it could easily be worse.
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And this is the key. People are projecting the failures of the past 2 seasons (and 18-19 playoffs) onto what we've seen in these 2 games so far.
This team has been a truly average team the last couple years but visually and statistically they've looked better in these two games than they have at any point since the all-star break of the 18-19 season. And that's promising to me.