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Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja
This is the Calgary Flames way. Gotta stay in the middle and hope for another 04 run to fall in our laps
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Except that in that run the Flames had a Hart Trophy candidate Iginla is his prime and a Vezina guy in Kiprudoff leading them. In any series they potentially had the best player.
This current group doesn't have anyone like that. Maybe Markstrom if he can find his game, but Goaltending doesn't have as big an impact as it did 20 years ago and this years Markstrom can't string 3 good games together. Last year Ottenger was great...still not enough to win the series. Teams need impact forwards and defenseman to win now.