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Originally Posted by blankall
Yeah it's really amazing how bad some of the other teams are this season. Was expecting it to be difficult to hit the bottom five, but this season is just out of control. Teams that I thought would go okay gave just given up a couple of months in. Plus the same group of perpetual losers is showing no signs of improvement.
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Lots of folks around here felt bottom-five was a lock for the Flames. That prediction assumed a bunch of bottom 10 teams would get better and few middle 10 teams would get worse. But the Flames roster in the offseason did not look any worse than SEA, UTA, PHI, MTL, NYI, PIT, STL, CBJ, etc. Projections based on the record in the last 20 games of last season were never persuasive - the goaltending was awful in that stretch, and the locker room was demoralized by the unending rumours and sell-offs. This Flames rosters always liked like an 18th to 24th ranked team to me.