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Old 08-22-2023, 09:56 AM   #6924
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher View Post

Winning the Cup in a 32 team league is difficult. It’s unfair to make it the only measure of success. However, winning playoff rounds and getting closer to the Cup is not a matter of pure chance. Fans are not out of line to expect their team to win a couple rounds every few years, and to play in the conference finals a couple times when their franchise is at the top of its development cycle.
6/8 years, the Lightning were either knocking on the door of the finals, in the finals, or they won (twice). So 75% of those years they were in a real contending position. Not sure how he thinks that's lightning in a bottle. He hung himself with his own evidence.

And then he mentioned Vegas, which had a similar arch before winning, lol.

Unreal the mental gymnastics people will continue to play to hang on to the "get in and anything can happen" framework the Flames have sold them.
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