The Playoff Push, Tanking and Scoreboard Watching Thread

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Exact same recipe of basically every Flames game I have watched. Play subpar hockey for 50 minutes and randomly be gifted opportunities from your opponent in the last 10 and tie it. I genuinely fully believe the Flames are not even close to a top 16 team. I think anyone who has watched their games would agree. I think at some point the floor is going to fall out from under them and they will start losing some of these games when they play poorly.
 
Worst case scenario the Kraken have helped our tiebreaker. Obviously they were up with 6 minutes left but this was not a game we thought the Flames would lose so even the worst case scenario here isn't too bad. If Seattle can win in OT even better!
 
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I believe that is the 5th? blown lead in the 3rd against the teams that are chasing us in the wild card race in the last week and a half. However, Calgary was expected to win this game going in. Winning in OT instead of regulation means if they lose to Dallas on Thursday and we beat the Preds in regulation we will finally officially control our own destiny.
 
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No regulation win for Calgary is still pretty big. That helps.

Now Thursday will be a big night. We have to take care of business once more against Nashville.

Minnesota has to play Washington, Calgary plays Dallas, and Utah will be in Tampa. Tough games for all of them so we could hopefully be in a really good spot come Friday.
 

Current PointsGames RemainingPossible PointsRWROWCommon Games
Wild85101053237vs C, vs V
Flames79121032631vs U, vs W
Blues8391012834vs U
Canucks78111002530vs W
Utah7511972431vs C, vs F

The only bright side of Calgary's win is that it wasn't RW. We have the edge on them for the first tie-breaker. If I were one of the top two seeds, I would look at the Blues and look at Calgary, and root like hell for Calgary. The Blues look like a team playing well who will be dangerous to anyone. Calgary looks like the Keystone Cops.

Canucks in action tonight.
 
A 7 game win streak really made catching Minnesota possible, and it's a very real possibility now. Unfortunately they have an upcoming trip with the NY area teams, and I expect them all to fall on their face and gift Minny some points after doing the same with Vancouver and Calgary.
 
I agree our D is not as good, However, I must say that I don't view our defense as a weak spot at all anymore. Honestly the only major difference is Faulk instead of Petro and we could also maybe use a powerplay QB like Dunn in 2019. I can't see any pairing having as good of a defensive playoffs as 2019 Bouwmeester - Parayko did, but Fowler - Parayko is super solid too. Add Broberg and a solid third pairing and we are pretty solid on the back end. I think our true weakness is our bottom 6 compared to 2019's. The WTF line has played pretty well, but they do not hold a candle to Barbashev - Sundqvist - Steen. Maroon - Bozak - Thomas was also better than Bolduc - Sundqvist - Joseph.
My recollection of 2019 would agree with you on the third line. But the underlying stats say that the difference is negligible. 58.3% expected goals for Bolduc-Sunny-Joseph vs. 58.4% for Maroon-Bozak-Thomas. I like Bolduc's work ethic on the top line these past few games, but him playing on the third line creates a matchup nightmare.

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