The Eternal Playoff Optimism Thread

[Groot]

Originally Posted by Manhattanboy

I guess we are hoping for SEA wins over NSH in both of their back to backs?

Or a split to keep our options open?

Nashville for both cause they have a brutal schedule and will likely drop a lot of game to close out the season after Seattle.

[Vinny01]

Originally Posted by NegativeSpace

I'm not sure that they need to win out, but they definitely need to get on a winning streak of some sort. Honestly, I'd take 3 games now. Win tonight and hope the Jets lose.

It is truly one game at a time right now and honestly every game is winnable. The Jets game being a back to back is tough and tonight and the Kings will be tough tests. I hope there is vengeance on the mind against LA and they play their best game.

This honestly feels like 2010-2012 all over again where this was a 90+point non-playoff team each season.

[TheScorpion]

Originally Posted by Vinny01

It is truly one game at a time right now and honestly every game is winnable. The Jets game being a back to back is tough and tonight and the Kings will be tough tests. I hope there is vengeance on the mind against LA and they play their best game.

This honestly feels like 2010-2012 all over again where this was a 90+point non-playoff team each season.

If only this weren't the worst possible thing to be in this league ...

[Enoch Root]

after tonight's series of kidney punches...

WPG: 12
CGY:25

NSH: 18
CGY: 25

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Just go 9-0. Easy..

[Tsawwassen]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

Just go 9-0. Easy..

That's right. The Knights go 0-10-0, the Stars go 1-7-2, the Kings 2-8-1, Wild 2-7-1, and other teams with poor records which will have the Flames finish 1st place in the western conf!

You gotta believe it.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by Vinny01

It is truly one game at a time right now and honestly every game is winnable. The Jets game being a back to back is tough and tonight and the Kings will be tough tests. I hope there is vengeance on the mind against LA and they play their best game.

This honestly feels like 2010-2012 all over again where this was a 90+point non-playoff team each season.

A team with 90 point is essentially below average with teams getting an average of more than 1 point per game.

A team getting 96 or so points failing to make the playoffs is one thing, but 90?

[Goriders]

If there’s a team to go 9-0 down the stretch it’s definitely this one.

It’s……… Going………. To………… Happen.

Bet the farm.

[Always Earned Never Given]

After 82 games this is what it will look like.


7 Calgary Flames 95
8 Seattle Kraken 94
9 Winnipeg Jets 92
10 Nashville Predators 90

My source is Martin Seamus McFly.

[Vinny01]

Originally Posted by The Cobra

A team with 90 point is essentially below average with teams getting an average of more than 1 point per game.

A team getting 96 or so points failing to make the playoffs is one thing, but 90?

The Avs had 88pts when they beat the 107pt Flames in 2019. The Habs had 88pts when they beat the Pens and Caps in 2010 and went to the ECF. Sometimes it also can take 96pts or more to make the playoffs. The Flames had 94pts in 2011 and missed and 94pts in 2017 and were the first wildcard. 90pts is a .5625 winning percentage or a 46-36 record over 82 games (loser points can obviously alter that record)

[Dion]

The Flames chances of making the playoffs are lower than Lanny McDonald shaving off his stache.

[Always Earned Never Given]

Originally Posted by Dion

The Flames chances of making the playoffs are lower than Lanny McDonald shaving off his stache.

Come on Dion you are better than that. Pretty sure your comment could have been put in any other thread.

I guess for some posters reading skills are not their forte.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by Vinny01

The Avs had 88pts when they beat the 107pt Flames in 2019. The Habs had 88pts when they beat the Pens and Caps in 2010 and went to the ECF. Sometimes it also can take 96pts or more to make the playoffs. The Flames had 94pts in 2011 and missed and 94pts in 2017 and were the first wildcard. 90pts is a .5625 winning percentage or a 46-36 record over 82 games (loser points can obviously alter that record)

A .5625 winning percentage is about average. It equates to a team that is very average.

Loser points most definitely alter those records, so don't for a minute think a 90 point team somehow deserves to make the playoffs when they are basically losing as many games as they win.

Calgary has won 32 of 79 games. They are very lucky to be even sniffing a playoff chance this year.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

But actually. Go 9-0 and you're probably in.

These guys have left so much in the tank that they should have that kind of hockey in them easily.

Too bad they're quitters.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by The Cobra

A .5625 winning percentage is about average. It equates to a team that is very average.

Loser points most definitely alter those records, so don't for a minute think a 90 point team somehow deserves to make the playoffs when they are basically losing as many games as they win.

Calgary has won 32 of 79 games. They are very lucky to be even sniffing a playoff chance this year.

The idea of a loser point is false though.

For most of NHL history a team received 1 point for being tied after regulation.

If anything it's the opposite. The teams poor OT record is preventing them from accumulating enough "bonus" points to be in the playoffs.

Winnipeg is 10-3 in OT/SO.

Nashville is 10-8 in OT/SO.

Flames are 6-15 in OT/SO.

If anything their records are a bit inflated by the OT/SO wins (more so Winnipeg).

9 teams have played 20 OT/SO games or mo - so it's not like it's just the Flames playing lots of OT games. Issue is the Flames have been terrible in OT.

[DoubleK]

When's the last time the Flames won three games in a row? December?

This team is a complete tease. They have an equal propensity to dominate the other team or completely lay an egg.

[the-rasta-masta]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

The idea of a loser point is false though.

For most of NHL history a team received 1 point for being tied after regulation.

Not sure this part of your post is accurate. Pretty sure up until some point in the 90s or early 2000s, if you lost in overtime you didn't get any points. Needed to finish in a tie through overtime to get the 1 point.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta

Not sure this part of your post is accurate. Pretty sure up until some point in the 90s or early 2000s, if you lost in overtime you didn't get any points. Needed to finish in a tie through overtime to get the 1 point.

I meant more historically you got a point for games that ended tied after the 5v5 play finished.

From 83- 99 if you went to overtime and lost you didn't get the point but those games were also played 5v5 and something like 10% of games actually were finished in OT.

Really the "loser point" isn't a thing IMO. It would be more ridiculous if they went to 2 points for a win and 1 points for a loss for games that end in 3v3 or a SO.

The real problem is it should be a 3-2-1 points system.

[Icantwhisper]

Originally Posted by The Cobra

A .5625 winning percentage is about average. It equates to a team that is very average.

Loser points most definitely alter those records, so don't for a minute think a 90 point team somehow deserves to make the playoffs when they are basically losing as many games as they win.

Calgary has won 32 of 79 games. They are very lucky to be even sniffing a playoff chance this year.

If the Flames go 9-0 they'll have a .500 winning percentage, we're tied in wins with Vancouver. this season has been a disappointment to say the least

[Macho0978]

Originally Posted by Goriders

If there’s a team to go 9-0 down the stretch it’s definitely this one.

It’s……… Going………. To………… Happen.

Bet the farm.

This team can go 9 - 0, we just need to find a way to postpone every 2nd game!