Is this Flames team ready to make a deep playoff run? fan960lou thinks their window of potential success is just opening:
find themselves in a very different position than what they have grown accustomed to.
There is little doubt in my mind that what the fan base wants is a reason to believe that spring magic is in the elevated air again. The magical run of 2004 still resonates in this community, and that was never more evident to me than on the night when Jarome Iginla’s No. 12 was raised to the rafters at Scotiabank Saddledome.
The 43-20-7 Flames have ascended to new heights thanks to a talented young group of forwards led by Johnny Gaudreau, who with a career-high six-point game against the New Jersey Devils has hit the 90 point plateau. Sean Monahan, Elias Lindholm and Matthew Tkachuk are all having career years as well. All but Tkachuk is signed for at least three more years.
The biggest question mark for many remains in goal. Who should start Game 1 of the playoffs: 26-year-old David Rittich or 36-year-old Mike Smith? That’s not my biggest question mark.
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