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Originally Posted by Mattman
That's a crazy stat. And I think alot of us here were scared during that stretch, but they are one of the best team's in the league since the Allstar break.
Don't care what people say about "spanking bad teams" the Flames have also had a very concentrated schedule in that time span too, and they are getting W's.
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I've talked a lot about '86 this season. That year, if you ignored the 11-game losing streak around Christmas, the Flames played at a 100-point pace (with no loser points, which made it a much bigger achievement than now, similar to this year's 110-point pace). People said it was cherrypicking to ignore that, but in fact they did play like a 100-point team in the playoffs.
This year, the worst stretch was that 2-7-1 run before and after the COVID outbreak. Now, I wouldn't want to skew the figures by arbitrarily leaving out the worst 10-game stretch, so let's toss all the outliers and leave out the best 10-game stretch as well. That, of course, was the winning streak – 10-0-0.
If you leave out the best stretch and the worst stretch, the team's record in the remaining games is 35-13-8. That's a .696 point percentage, which is actually better than their record for the season as a whole – even without the winning streak.
This is a legitimately good team that had one mid-season stumble, and then fixed the roster holes with trades. Of course Ms. Downer says it will mean nothing when (not if) they get swept in the first round, but I think we can do without taking her too seriously. Don't you?