It's just the nature of our world today - "what have you done for me lately?". If the Flames went 7-1-4 like this:
W, W, OL, W, W, OL, W, L, OL, W, OL, W
instead of like this:
W, W, W, W, W, W, W, OL, OL, OL, OL, L
I'm sure everyone would be much more happy, even though it has the same total point gain. The season is long for a reason - teams will ebb and flow, but overall their ending record is a pretty good indication of how good they actually are. That's why the snake is great - we can take out all the emotion of the ups and downs and see that in the long run all we need is to slowly work our way above the black line, and there are 82 game in which to accomplish this goal.
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