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The Calgary Flames will pick up their belongings and pack up their gear Friday, always a sombre day around the Saddledome.

After medical testing, exit meetings and one last chat with the media, you won’t spot them again until September.

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So what went wrong during their opening-round ouster – a four-game sweep – from the Anaheim Ducks?

And where do they go from here?

With something to sip on for the glass-half-full and the glass-half-empty sorts, here are five reasons the Flames are already eliminated from the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs and five reasons for optimism about what lies ahead:

REASON THEY’RE OUT, NO. 1: Costly mistakes

From an awful line change to boneheaded penalties to an awkward-angle stinker that Brian Elliott simply can’t allow in the early stages of Game 4, the Flames made too many mistakes against the Ducks and paid dearly for them. Go ahead and blame puck-luck or grouse about a couple of controversial calls by the NHL’s video-review war room, but much of this damage was self-inflicted. It’ll be a summer of ‘what-ifs,’ knowing that ill-timed miscues were their ultimate undoing.