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Originally Posted by Nelson
I’d say the proof is in the pudding. Each of those seasons, the Flames got destroyed in the second round. (Edit: With the Avs, it was the first round.) They didn’t get beat by a Cinderella team with insane goaltending or shooting luck. They ran into a team with better centres, whom they couldn’t match. I wouldn’t say either team was a contender.
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I think the term destroyed is extreme. Yes they lost both series in a gentleman’s sweep where they won game 1 and lost 4 in a row. They had multi goal leads in the third period twice against the Oilers and were tied a third time in the third and lost. The Avs scored goals with the goalie pulled in 2 games to force OT and win. The only constant in both series is they were embarrassed in game 3. Flames happened to get the door blown off them in game 5 against the Avs but the Oilers won game 5 in OT after one of the worst calls where Coleman “kicked” the puck in the net.
Yea both were short series but the Flames could have won both and deserved better against the Oilers but Markstrom completely choked.