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Originally Posted by Kovaz
Strength of schedule matters a lot when evaluating a team's current record. Even elite teams generally go about .500 against other contenders and win the lion's share against the bottom feeders
Last year's Flames:
vs. bottom-10 teams: 20-2-4 (139 point pace)
vs. the rest: 30-19-7 (98 point pace)
This year's Flames:
vs. bottom-10 teams: 1-2-0 (55 point pace)
vs. the rest: 8-6-3 (92 point pace)
With everything that's gone wrong this year (scorers can't score, goalies can't goalie), the team's only marginally worse against playoff-calibre teams than last year. Even a couple of freebies against an Anaheim or an Ottawa in the middle of that 7-game streak, and that's a 2-5 slump in the middle of an otherwise ok season sitting at 11-6-3 in a divisional playoff spot.
Obviously you have to actually win those games against bottom-feeders, but when we're looking at the standings it matters. Buffalo is the worst team the Flames have played so far. Vegas has played 8 games against teams worse than Buffalo (and won 7 of them).
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