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Originally Posted by devo22

still blow my mind that the Flames are "only" the 8th best team in the league now in terms of standings. There's some ridiculously good teams this year.

It's pretty crazy. The Flames had a couple of losing streaks, but even so, are pacing for a 110 point pace. Normally that's good enough for 2-5 in the standings.

There are some really lousy teams in the East though.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by devo22

still blow my mind that the Flames are "only" the 8th best team in the league now in terms of standings. There's some ridiculously good teams this year.

They are trending towards 7-8 spot.

But I think in the top 10 it’s almost splitting hairs. Anyone can beat anyone.

We’ve been smoked by the big 4 and have returned serve.

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by Goriders

They are trending towards 7-8 spot.

But I think in the top 10 it’s almost splitting hairs. Anyone can beat anyone.

We’ve been smoked by the big 4 and have returned serve.

If we can snag 108 points, and home ice in the playoffs against most of the West (outside of Colorado) but still draft in the 12-15 spot because of the inflated points of the Eastern teams... sign me up.

[dino7c]

There are some absolute point donors in the East...look at the Flames record vs. the East with the majority being road games

Pacific division win will give them the #2 seed in the west, rest is irrelevant

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

If we can snag 108 points, and home ice in the playoffs against most of the West (outside of Colorado) but still draft in the 12-15 spot because of the inflated points of the Eastern teams... sign me up.

uh about that

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by dino7c

uh about that

Oh right lol

[Flames1217]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

If we can snag 108 points, and home ice in the playoffs against most of the West (outside of Colorado) but still draft in the 12-15 spot because of the inflated points of the Eastern teams... sign me up.

Who are we trading ?

We are giving MTL the last pick in the first round though.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by RM14

Kanye is from Chicago

That makes the name look even worse. I guess we should be happy we don't have kids in Alberta running around with the name Edmonton because their parents were borne there.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by RM14

Kanye is from Chicago

Naming your kid after the city you were born in, that's pretty cool. Hows little Moosejaw doing?

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

I was noting in the game thread last night that the point totals of top teams this year are pacing out to be pretty high. We will see if that holds up or if some of these 110 point teams end up closer to 100. The top 9 point percentage teams are all pacing to 110 points, and 8 of them to 50 wins. I wouldn't think that will be the final result, but it could be. The NHL Middle class of 90-99 point teams has shrunk. Only Edmonton, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Dallas are projecting to end up in that area this season. Typically this is a corhort where you find a lot more teams. In the 2019-2020 season there were 13 teams projecting to finish in this range.

The one place where the Flames play appears to have yield less efficient results vs the rest of the league does look to be in their point total. They're in the mix with Minnesota, and St.Louis in the Conference when some other numbers suggest they should be closer to Colorado, Florida, Carolina, and Tampa Bay.

10 straight should've put them further ahead than they are.

In any other year if a 14th ranked team wins 10 straight it puts them up in the top 5 easily.

Flames, incredibly, still just in the 6-8th range.

[GioforPM]

Knowing Kanye he thought that was a new Cubs logo.

[MrMike]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Naming your kid after the city you were born in, that's pretty cool. Hows little Moosejaw doing?

Thank goodness my Mother didn’t do exactly that

[btimbit]

Middle name like Ron Howard's kids, sure, but first name? That's stupid.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by MrMike

Thank goodness my Mother didn’t do exactly that

Is she from a small town in Newfoundland?

[GioforPM]

My buddy’s GF is from Climax Sask. Just throwing that in there.

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by devo22

yeah I think top 3 is a fair assessment too. You can take pretty much every relevant advanced stat and it'll tell you they're an elite team. xG, Corsi, Scoring Chances, High Danger Chances ... they are a top 3 team across the board.

which amazes me even more when I look at the standings. They are on a pace for 110 points, and still, there's 8 teams with a better pace. I get that there's a number of really bad teams in the East which will skew the picture a little bit, but there's also teams like Minnesota which are doing incredibly well this year. I can't remember the disparity between good and bad teams ever being that huge in the cap era, it just feels crazy this year.

So how would you rank the top 5 teams this year? Or ar least who would you categorize as top 5 in no order?

I would have them:

Panthers
Lightning
Avalanche
Hurricanes
Flames

I think Toronto is notably soft and Campbell appears to be losing a step. I don't think the Caps or Bruins are as good as their point totals having watched a few of their games. Crosby and Malkin are getting up there in age, and they have been ousted early in recent times. And Vegas is still a question mark, so far don't look as dominant as their past teams. The Flames look more like Vegas than the knights do this year.

I'd be very nervous about facing any of those top four.

I think the Flames would fare well head to head against most other teams. St Louis is scary when they're on, but they've also had an inconsistent year.

[Vinny01]

I saw a TSN stat that showed this was the 4th fastest flames team to 30 wins and we all remember the other 3.
88/89 - speaks for itself 47 games

18/19 - not a distant memory. The team absolutely dominated for a couple of months and was good enough to win enough games down the stretch but their 110pt pacing top line cooled significantly and their inexperienced coach was unable to have them ready for the playoffs. This was also 47 games

21/22 - we are living it 49 games

08/09 - this was the best team Darryl Sutter built as GM. Moved on from Tanguay and Husselius and added Cammaleri, Bertuzzi, Bourque, and Glencross. They were a truly elite team getting a 13pt division lead. They went all in at the deadline and got Jokinen and brought back Leopold. Injuries hit hard and this team backed into the playoffs big time. They won their 30th game in 49 games

[djsFlames]

Let's be more like '89 and less like '09 and '19.

Wait why did they all happen in the 9th year lol.

[Vinny01]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Let's be more like '89 and less like '09 and '19.

Wait why did they all happen in the 9th year lol.

While it wasn’t the same circumstances the 09 and 19 teams are very similar in how they broke our heart. December and January they were unbeatable with brand new wingers enjoying breakout years in Cammy and Lindy respectively.

Both teams faced young up and coming teams however the Hawks were the higher seed than the Flames in 09 the Avs were red hot down the stretch in 19.

I feel like this year is different. Certainly feels like a different vibe this time around

[dino7c]

Many most of the Flames losses this year are games they really should have won... especially those early home losses.

Remember that first period against Nashville? Should have been a blowout win.