80.66 meaningful games of hockey. .33 of unabashed fun to close it out.
That's a great season, especially when you take a step back and look at the overall picture. This isn't a team that has under-performed. This was a season of exceeding expectations. How many of these seasons have we really seen in the last 20 years? I was (and still very much am) on the side of rebuilding, but I was smart enough to simply enjoy this ride.
This was an entertaining game. Sure, you can easily make the argument that Vegas came in without a handful of their very best players, and it still took the Flames until the shootout to win, but on the other hand, that's a bunch of fresh legs and hungry appetites being dressed for Vegas filling-in those spots too - not an easy game to win.
One more fun game this season. Hopefully the Flames call-up another deserving player from the farm for it to play alongside Parekh and Suniev. It will be nice to see a few pieces of the future.
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