Lost to leafs,lost to preds, the rest of those teams were bottom feeders last year save for NY. Even NY is a year removed from drafting Lafreniere, and Kakko. Phillidelphia is a head case team. Never dependable. Washington is still the best team we beat during our run. Even then we barely eked that one out.
The travel to me doesn’t mean much since it’s early in the year and we have had few if any injuries with a back up playing well. The flames always lead the league in travel distance or close to. It’s the nature of our latitude and longitude. So all in all I don’t feel as if it’s some measure of difficulty added.
When the team plays Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vegas, Colorado, Dallas again, St. Louis, Nashville more often then I may reset my parameters. None of the wins have said this team is elite. I think we are better off than years previous but look at the team that finished 1st in the west, they were thoroughly trounced in the first round. Second round or bust for this squad at the minimum.
The flames will not keep up this pace. If they do then they will contend for top of the presidents trophy, I still think they finish 3rd or worse is the pacific.
Non of the homer crowd is going to dissuade me. I made a wager and no one, I don’t ignore, bit on it.
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My Sig is terrible...le sigh
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