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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I mean, chirp all you want but the receipts are there. I said (to you, even) before christmas that they were trending not to make the playoffs, and that there was no way they could sustain a level of play that would get them there from christmas to end of season.
Ultimately, I was correct. They were incapable of doing that. 
Bad beat? Maybe they should have come together as a team and tried harder at the beginning of the season. Then it wouldn't have mattered what other teams were streaking or not. Look at the Oilers (yuck) they have absolutely sucked for a month now but they had their playoff ticket secured early. We absolutely failed to do this, and it's no one's fault but the players.
Well, maybe management too but that's another conversation. |
Not making the playoffs and being eliminated on game 81 by way of a tie break are not the same thing. Context is important.
San Jose and Calgary both missed the playoffs - fact. I would "ultimately be correct" if I said that, but so what?
That misses the point entirely. San Jose was out in December and Calgary was eliminated the second last game of the season. The amount of mental gymnastics that you have to play so you can say that you were "ultimately correct" is hilarious.
From Christmas till yesterday.
Vegas: 26 - 14 - 7 -> 59pts
Blues: 28 - 15 - 3 -> 59pts
Flames: 24 - 16 - 7 -> 55pts (57 if we beat LA)
Oilers: 26 - 18 - 3 -> 55pts
Wild: 24 - 20 - 3 -> 51pts
I don't know what you mean when you say, "trending to not make the playoffs". The Flames completely turned it around since Christmas and did sustain a playoff pace until the end of the year. We paced two playoff bound teams and if we end up with 96pts, it will be the most points scored without reaching the playoffs in NHL history.
So yes, we didn't make the playoffs, that sucks. The team, players and coaches have to take that responsibility, not the out of town scoreboard. However, to completely ignore how well we were playing the last 50games of the season and not acknowledge just how damn close we were to making the playoff's, is being ridiculously disingenuous.