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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Well Dino picked some other timelines and the Flames are mediocre in those timelines as well, picking up points on some teams and losing points to some teams. There is no timeline where they are consistently picking up points on 80 percent of the teams they are competing with. I just picked a date that was roughly a month out where there was a snapshot of the standings on that date. Happy to have others look at Dec 7th or November 27th or any random date. Fact is they were a bubble team a month ago and are the same now, because they are not gaining enough ground.
I suspect by Feb 15th we will be in the “have to win 2 out of 3” games category that Brent Sutter perfected to make the playoffs.
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Since Dec 18 the Flames have a .682 points percentage, 5th best in the Western Conference. The better teams have been Seattle, LA, Nashville, Dallas.
The thing you're not taking into account is that LA and Seattle are tied for 2nd
in the entire NHL over this stretch, behind only Boston. I don't take those two teams being on absolute heaters as evidence that the Flames aren't trending in a good direction.
No matter which way you cut it, .682 is a great points % and extrapolates to 112 points over 82 games. Obviously the Flames won't sustain this for another 40 games, but the hope is they can be .600 (or close to) the rest of the way.
And don't forget, Marky makes a couple more saves, we're talking about the Flames getting 17 of 22 which would put them on par with LA and Seattle.