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Originally Posted by Bingo
Hilarious how this topic created four pages of debate.
For the most part nobody is saying the Flames are playing great but the schedule has been their undoing ... but we've seen that push back.
I don't think anyone is saying the schedule is a dozen points or more of an impact but we've seen a pushback.
People hate excuses I guess. The team shouldn't use them, but we certainly can. This one is a fact ... they've had a harder schedule. Some are treating this as if I walked out an opinion that the refs are harder on the Flames than other teams. It's not ... they've played better teams.
Is it a huge impact? Likely not. But three points is pretty huge in 22 games in my mind.
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If you did say refs are harder on the Flames it would be more believable to their woes than the schedule thing. The OT penalty call was ridiculous followed by the non-calls the following game in the dying minutes on the road. Again it doesn’t have to be a league wide conspiracy to be an implicit bias, but absolutely if we are determined to find excuses for the team, refs have game managed and impacted the Flames more than the schedule IMO.