So your team, the one seed in the conference, didn’t get swept, but they did go out in five games to a team that almost everybody (this writer included) thought they were demonstrably better than.
But here we are, Flames fans, sinking into the start of the second round and staring down a much longer off-season than we imagined we would have. So what went wrong here? Are the Flames farther away from contending than we thought? Is this first round exit indicative of a bigger problem with the team? We’ve let the feelings calm down a bit, we’ve given ourselves a bit of time to breathe, and we’re ready to talk.