It's impressive that they're alive at all with the injuries, but if you dig a little deeper they haven't been good. They get killed 5 on 5 and their powerplay is pretty bad. They're basically riding a good penalty kill that's mostly on the back of goaltending and some hot shooting when they get shorthanded chances.
It's more an indictment of the rest of the wildcard teams than anything else. For reference, last year's mid-collapse Flames team was 3 points ahead of where Arizona is currently, and they were pretty much already done.
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