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All last season I had high expectations for the Calgary Flames. The team had depth issues, yes, but few others could match the elite talent they had at the top. That should have been enough to push the Flames at least into a playoff position.



It wasn’t.



The Flames looked like a sure-fire playoff team after a seven-game winning streak in January that pushed them to a 25-16-4 record, a 98-point pace, but they stumbled the rest of the way with a disastrous 12-19-6 record, a 66-point pace, that culminated in an 84-point finish. That’s not exactly what was expected after the team made the playoffs with 94 points in the season prior. Many expected growth from a young team and while Calgary’s underlying numbers were superb, the team just couldn’t get the results to match. The Flames looked good on paper, but couldn’t...