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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
Yeah the Flames looked like they could feasibly upset someone up until the last week before the 4N break and since then. In that time frame they've truly looked like a team hanging on by their fingernails rather than the quick pivot retool that some of us and management were probably talking themselves into believing they might be.
I guess in the end it's the final quarter that separates the real clubs from pretenders. Which sucks because you get your hopes up for most of the season only to have it unravel.
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It's the totality of an 82 game season. Factoring in all the road trips, homestands, surviving injuries that all play into it. It has been no secret that the Flames can't score and unfortunately a goalie can only take you so far. If you can't score at least league average and play elite defence, you don't have a hope in hell of knocking off the elite teams in the playoffs, let alone make it in.
What we're seeing now is simply the averages catching up with them and a tired, beat up group that is running out of gas from having to play such a tight, hard game all year.