The team is certainly out performing expectations, but a large part of it is there are 7 competent team then a drop off, and the Flames find themselves barely on top of a terrible group of teams that cannot string wins together.
It's a turtle race to be first round fodder.
At least if they do somehow find themselves in at the end of it, it will serve as valuable experience for the young players who will be here later when hopefully the team is actually competitive.
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