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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
#### happens. They lost to the oilers with their two best defensive defensmen decimated by injuries or not even in the line up, and their goalie playing like a slice of swiss cheese. Despite that they still had the lead in just about every game, and 4 of the 5 games were tied half way through the third. I'm not even going to get into the tilted ice thanks to the league/officiating agenda.
They were still a very good team and made the right move going for it. And this is coming from a poster who is still pissed that they didn't sell at the deadline in the bubble year and then thought they should have blown it up later in that off season after Dallas knocked them off.
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They lost 4/5 games, plain and simple. You can make every excuse in the book, but good teams find a way to win. Every team deals with injuries. Good players rise to the occasion. Draisaitl was injured and put up 17 pts in 5 games. Tampa was banged up way worse than the Flames and made it to the finals. The Avs had more injuries than the Flames.
And if you want to make every excuse for the Flames and give no credit to the Oilers, then sure. But that still doesn't change the fact that the Stars were a shot away from eliminating the Flames in the first round. That is a very average team.
Going for it at the deadline of course made sense. But the holes in this team have been apparent for years, and last season didn't change that. And it doesn't change the outlook moving forward.