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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The entire discussion was about the fact that the Flames DIDN'T complain, despite having the worst travel schedule in the league so far, and have been on a crazy 9-game in 16 day bender, in 4 time zones.
AND NO ONE COMPLAINED. And they played well, all the way through it.
BTW...
The Flames have had 14 road games (the most in the NHL), and have travelled over 21k kms this year. Washington has played 5 road games and travelled 3K.
It's a valid discussion point.
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It is quite the weird schedule for them. Lots of travel, but against the 'mushy middle'. Now they can rest at home... against a long series of top-tier teams. That's just a weird schedule. Did Don Henderson get a position with scheduling, and he is still exacting his revenge on the Flames or something?
It could be worse at least. Schedule is the schedule, and at least the team had time to prepare for it.
I can also look at it a different way - the schedule was really slow to start, and up until now, had mostly road games. I think being on the road takes a lot of the pressure off and the Flames could have easily spiralled further down with all that extra pressure near the start of the season. Playing a bunch of games against top-tier opponents can also help to get your team into a good rhythm of playing well-consistently... or it can erode your confidence and destroy your season. I think this next stretch will really show what this team is made of.