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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I’m not endorsing blowing anything up but comparing the two teams isn’t reflecting reality either. Is there an NHL team facing a bigger off-season than the Flames?
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Is there a meaningful way of even quantifying the bigness of off-seasons? I say there is no answer to an empty question.
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And look, this is definitely a good team. Best team in decades? I say let that be decided on the ice.
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Best regular-season performance in decades. The playoffs are a crapshoot. Montreal was not the second-best team in the NHL last year, and Tampa Bay was not the 16th-best team in 2019. In fact, that year, all four division winners were bounced in the first round, a fact conveniently forgotten by the people who want to blame the Flames and only the Flames for ‘choking’.
Anyone who thinks the best team always wins in a 7-game playoff series is simply not using their head. It's fundamentally irrational to throw out 82 games of evidence and base your evaluation entirely on 7. But that is what a lot of hockey fans, I am afraid, routinely do.