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Originally Posted by Mathgod
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.
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Fair enough, so I suspect you picked the best date for the Flames. And they had 4 teams competing for a playoff spot above them in the west and 6 potentia playoff teams below them. So they were better than 60 percent of the teams they are competing with over that period of time. It would be nice if they played at a .682 pace for the rest of the year, that was the pace they played at over 82 games last year.