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Originally Posted by dino7c
Calgary had high end players though...I don't think Calgary making the playoffs was a big surprise. Almost everyone picked them as top 3 in the Pacific before the season started.
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I believe most of the media had Vegas, Edmonton and Vancouver as the 3 teams with a few saying the Flames had a shot for top 3 but I don’t think many had them winning the division. The flames having everything go right leads to a division title while Seattle doing well is more like the 2015 Flames where just making it is what mattered.
Calgary was the surprise team last year. Losing number 1 Dman and replacing him with some third pair muscle while also adding some cheap and expensive gritty bottom 6 forwards turned out to be great.