Calgary Flames finish the season tied for 14th overall with 96 points and fail to make the playoffs

[MrLunatik]

While it can't been proven, but it's super unlikely. The west was able to feed on the Sharks, Hawks, and Preds.

I never said it was likely, I'm saying it's stupid to argue something as a fact when it's not.

 

[DueDiligence]

Aww that sucks. The Flames would have been 6th in the East.

It might please Flames fans to know most Oilers fans are side-eyeing Dustin Wolf hoping he doesn’t become their next Kiprusoff. Man I hated that guy. Always played like such a dink against Edm lol.

The 3 worst teams in the league were in the west. If each team played exactly the same number of games against every other team then your statement would have relevance.

 

[Spawn]

I think the argument is that most season 96 points is enough to make the playoffs

It wouldn’t have been enough in 3 of the last 4 seasons in the West.

 

[GhostfaceWu]

enjoy your prize of picking 17th huge accomplishment for your rebuild.

 

[Zerotonine]

Tied with Vancouver for most loser points at 14. Man the NHL needs to Fix the points system.

 

[MrLunatik]

enjoy your prize of picking 17th huge accomplishment for your rebuild.

Considering a 23-year old rookie goalie was out MVP.... it was.

It's hilarious how little people actually think before running their mouths.... just see an opportunity to shit on the Flames and failing to see that it's just running down their leg instead

 

[HabstuckinTO]

I would support having a short best-of-3 play-ins between the WC teams and the next 2, to avoid such oddities. Basically, this year :

St. Louis vs Calgary
Minnesota vs Vancouver
Ottawa (but it should be NJ actually) vs Detroit
Montreal vs Columbus

This would be wrapped in 5 days while the other teams rest.

I'll go one better. Turf Bettman and replace him with Oprah. You make the playoffs! And you make the playoffs! And you make the playoffs! And .......!

 

[Johnny HFBOARDS]

Calgary's 27 regulation losses were also tied for the 7th fewest overall. Not bad for a team in Year 1 of a "rebuild."

This team absolutely deserved to make the playoffs.

Why you posting in the Playoffs section, there's a regular season section for the peons.

 

[kp61c]

 

[KingsFan7824]

Tied with Vancouver for most loser points at 14. Man the NHL needs to Fix the points system.

Why? Good teams don't have to worry about it. Average teams do. Bad teams are bad. If your season comes down to any "loser points"(and they're not loser points), that's your fault as a team. Every team starts the season knowing exactly what the rules are. Calgary went 5-12 in OT. Why are you losing to Anaheim in OT on April 9th? That's not the point system's fault. Calgary was up 3-1 with 5 minutes to go in the 3rd period, then gave up 2 goals in 10 seconds. Calgary has, literally, nobody to blame but themselves for missing the playoffs.

 

[GhostfaceWu]

Considering a 23-year old rookie goalie was out MVP.... it was.

It's hilarious how little people actually think before running their mouths.... just see an opportunity to shit on the Flames and failing to see that it's just running down their leg instead

lol you missed the playoffs and have nothing to show for it but a late first round prospect nothing to be excited about.

 

[Iggys Dome]

lol you missed the playoffs and have nothing to show for it but a late first round prospect nothing to be excited about.

It's gonna be so funny when McDavid walks next summer and the Oilers have nothing to show for it

 

[hirawl]

You could not make it out of the west you deserve f*** all. Sorry.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

I'm so f***ing tired of this team's history of mediocrity.

 

[snag]

It's gonna be so funny when McDavid walks next summer and the Oilers have nothing to show for it

It's gonna be even funnier when he signs (and he will) and everyone that says this doesn't say a peep about it.

 

[Bounces R Way]

This draft sucks dicks anyway after the top 5. Fans love to think anything that isn't a high % lottery pick or a conference finals finish is a wasted season but that's because fans are short sighted simple minded myopic fools. Picking high doesn't make a great team. A great team makes a great team. Teams that win the championships have great depth at all positions and they have a culture of winning. It's making the most of what you have. Yeah you need stars but 25 teams have stars that aren't winning shit this season.

Seems like the worst possible outcome to me. Calgary doesn't have enough high end prospects/ good young players to be finishing in no man's land.

Then you simply don't know what you're talking about. They have a rookie goalie that just turned in a Calder worthy season and a 19 year old dman that put his name beside Bobby Orr this OHL season.

 

[HugginThePost]

Whatever......all they needed to do was win he game on the 10th of April against a shit Ducks team and they would have been in.

Or, you know, win one of the 14 f***ing OT games they lost.

This is peak Calgary. They usually miss the playoffs by a point or two. This year they wanted to be even more special!! Not making the playoffs with the same number of points!!

f***ing legends!

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

Should have let them cross over to the East and remove Montreal. Teams with -20 goal differentials should not be in the playoffs

 

[rielledup]

This draft sucks dicks anyway after the top 5. Fans love to think anything that isn't a high % lottery pick or a conference finals finish is a wasted season but that's because fans are short sighted simple minded myopic fools. Picking high doesn't make a great team. A great team makes a great team. Teams that win the championships have great depth at all positions and they have a culture of winning. It's making the most of what you have. Yeah you need stars but 25 teams have stars that aren't winning shit this season.



Then you simply don't know what you're talking about. They have a rookie goalie that just turned in a Calder worthy season and a 19 year old dman that put his name beside Bobby Orr this OHL season.

Parekh put up crazy numbers in his draft year and still only went 9th, there's a reason for that. He isn't some can't miss future Norris winner prospect.

Calgary farm system is ranked 15th by the hockey writers, not very good for a team that should be rebuilding. If I was a Flames fan I'd want a couple years of top 5 picks.

 

[Muffin]

Why is this in the playoffs section? Calgary is not in the playoffs

 

[BHD]

Did ownership start this thread?

They ended up just missing the playoffs when they should arguably be aiming for high picks.

 

[Wats]

Got some point inflation from playing the West fodder: 12-1-1 vs CHI, SJS, NSH, ANA

 

[Summer Rose]

Why is this in the playoffs section? Calgary is not in the playoffs

It's about the playoffs. You don't have to post in it if you don't like it.

 

[Mrb1p]

Honestly one of the most irrelevant teams in recent memory. Fast tracked to a decade of failure.

Id be mad as hell if I was a CGY fan. No top line talent, a good young goalie and a good potential offensive D.

 

[JKG33]

A play in for the sake of a play like how the NBA does it is incredibly stupid. However, I don't hate stealing an idea from the CFL and making it fit the NHL, the cross over.

First off, ditch the awful divisional crap and go back to 1v8, have the 2 division winners seeded 1-2 if you really want to. Then have a rule where if the 9th place team in one conference has more points than the 8th place team in another conference, have a cross-over, or even better, a 1 game play-in. In this case, it would've been Calgary vs Montreal for the right to 8th place in the east.

Since I'm sure people will cry travel and how unfair this is to the poor eastern teams, then give each team a choice. You don't have to go full women's hockey where they pick the opponent, but let the #1 seed decide between the cross-over #8 or the in-conference #7. And then work down the list until #4 is possibly forced to play the cross-over if nobody else wants to.

So in this year's case, we do a 1 game playoff. Can even let the 8th seeded lower ranked team have home ice since they're "defending" their playoff position. In this case Calgary @ Montreal. Lets say Calgary wins. Washington gets a choice, #8 Calgary or #7 NJ. They pick NJ because of travel. #2 Toronto then picks #6 Ottawa over #8 Calgary for the same reason. #3 Tampa then has the choice of #8 Calgary or #5 Florida, with #4 Carolina getting whichever team is left.

Let's say Washington (1), Toronto (2), Calgary (crossover), and Carolina (4) win their 1st rd series. The highest seeded team, Washington, can again get their choice if they want to avoid travel, so they could pick between Calgary (western crossover) and Carolina (other team that wouldn't have home ice in rd 2).

Since the teams picking their opponent isn't supposed to be about strength of opponent, but rather travel, the 1-4 seeds should be required to submit their choices by say 5PM on the day of the play-in (before the game). Washington writes in their choice of Calgary or New Jersey, Toronto writes Calgary or Ottawa, and so on. If Washington picks Calgary, the other 3 teams' choices become void. And if Montreal wins the play-in, all the choices also become void. If there is no crossover, then the seedings stay as they are.