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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Everyone keeps looking for simple patterns, and simple recipes for success.
Here is what the above chart shows: the Flames (and the Leafs and BJs and Wild) haven't had playoff success. That's it. Full stop.
No matter how you slice it and dice it, no matter how many ways you analyze it, the same truth remains: the Flames haven't had any playoff success. And we all know this.
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I don't think anyone is pretending it's simple, but there's definitely a correlation between certain things. It's difficult to simply say do X, Y, and Z and win the Stanley Cup in 5–10 years. Obviously, we're dealing with players, injuries, bounces, and referees, so there will always be random events that influence a playoff series, or help a team win the cup.
Dismissing something, or poking holes in something, is a lot easier than doing the work in an attempt to understand if there's a pattern in the data. Moreover, I don't think anyone here is attempting to draw a conclusion for you. It's an attempt to get a better picture than a cliché like: "make the playoffs, and anything can happen", which isn't wrong, but oversimplifies things.