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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

Looking at it already...it's potentially hard to be bottom 10 even.

Right now here are the teams below the Flames:

Bottom 10

32. Nashville - .375
31. Montreal - .375
30. San Jose - .382
29. Columbus - .400
28. Chicago - .406
27. Pittsburgh - .412
26. Anaheim - .429
25. Philadelphia - .438
24. St.Louis - .438
23. Detroit - .464

23-24 Bottom 10: .494

11-19
22. Seattle - .469
21. Buffalo - .469
20. Utah - . 500
19. Islanders - .500
18. Colorado - .500
17. Boston - .529
16. Edmonton - .531
15. Ottawa - .533
14. Tampa Bay - .536

13. Calgary - .559

In order to finish bottom 10, 10 of these teams have to pass the Flames this season.

Boston, Colorado, Tampa Bay, Ottawa, and Edmonton likely pass the Flames...but of the rest of those teams there are none that I'm like "yeah they are clearly better than the Flames".

It's possible the Flames trade some players and their play falls off a cliff...but even if they move Kuzmenko, Hanley, Barrie etc I don't see a huge fall off to the guys they'd bring up from the AHL.

If they move Andersson / Coleman / etc them maybe it's a different story but there are a lot of teams that honestly have similar number of holes to the Flames, and the Flames are playing better than them.

Edit: Also didn't even mention that Flames have actually had a tough schedule to start the year, and according to strength of schedule they have a top 5 easiest schedule remaning.

Their travel schedule has been brutal