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Are The Flames Built For The Stanley Cup
by Paul on 11/15/08 at 08:21 AM ET
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from Bruce Dowbiggin of the Calgary Herald,
Like the stock market, the Flames do not do autumn. Wall Street has Black Thursdays, and so do the Flames. Stocks plummet and so does the stock of the Flames. Eventually, things are expected to turn around for both (or so my broker assures me). So why should this fall be any different from the previous four seasons—when Calgary had just six wins after 15 games? They’re tied for first in the Northwest, a game above .500. They’ve had a six-game win streak.
Then why does something that sounds good feel so bad to the fans of the Flames? In large part, it’s because the Flames are not built to flirt with .500. They are—in the words of their president, their general manager and their head coach—a team built to win a Stanley Cup.
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