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Originally Posted by butterfly
But there's simply no evidence for that. If the league gave the Flames a two week break and remanded them to Hawaii, with the exception of playing Toronto and Colorado a week apart, would the results be any different than they were?
My answer is I don't know. Your answer seems to be yes. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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No. There is no evidence that is satisfactory to you that proves that, there is evidence that lack of rest impacts performance.
Just because the Flames schedule here doesn't fit perfectly with the data provided doesn't mean there is no evidence, but it's pretty much common sense to extrapolate that if teams with 2-3 days rest perform better than teams with 0-1 days rest...that a team playing 9 games in 15 days (1.67 rest on average) would perform worse than teams that had 2-2.5 days rest on average.
I have no idea if the results would be any different because hockey is pretty random at the best of times and as I said they could probably still lose the game because the Leafs and Avs are the better teams. Nobody is making an argument thay the Flames losses were entirely due to the schedule.
Just that that Flames performance these last two games was influenced by fatigue and a lack of rest. It was also influenced by injury, coaching decisions, and a overall lack of talent.