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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Winning the division in the regular season and being in the final 8 is a successful season still. Not the ultimate success, but still a good season.
The problem is the franchise has made the final 8 3 times in the last 33 years. We’ve won the division and a round of the playoffs once in the last 33 years, losing in the first round the other 4 times we won our division in the last 33 years.
That’s the problem.
In the end this was still a somewhat successful season, no matter how the rest of this series goes.
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I think there would be a much different reaction to this series, if the Flames put in serious effort. I think most fans handle it better when they just get beat by a better team, but it's been a pretty poor effort against a rival.
That said, I'd consider it a pretty big victory if they could even just battle back to get it 7, win or lose.