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Originally Posted by McG
Did they really have to beat Arizona, LA, split with Anaheim? My personal view is that once you are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, it’s about helping the team as much as possible for next season and beyond. Fight like crazy to get into the playoffs, and when that isn’t possible, acknowledge that the team wasn’t good enough and plan to get better.
The flames should have beaten these outsuckable teams throughout the season in addition to beating them at the end.
Playing injured players for pride and outcomes in a lost season seems really short sighted to me for the franchise when those same players could have started rehabbing earlier to have a longer runway to be ready for next season.
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Unless you’re outright throwing games on purpose, you can’t will a team to lose.
These games might not have been important to fans or the team itself, but they were important to the players. Good luck turning that off and on at will. The players don’t care about draft position, they’re playing for pride, each other, and themselves. If you want them to act like losers, all you’re ever going to get are losers.
The Flames were the 4th worst team after the deadline. When you look at where they were and the team on paper, it’s hard to argue they were anything but as bad as they could possibly be without outright throwing games.
I just hate the “they could have done less” mentality. I think it’s for losers. It’s one thing if the team is just built to be terrible, but having a team play worse than it is on purpose is just pathetic and embarrassing.