My confidence is sapped

The good news: The Flames are in the playoffs. The bad news: They got in the most uninspiring way possible.

I didn't actually watch their loss to the Oilers Saturday night (I was to busy at my desk cursing the Canadian Press for their inability to send WHL playoff results over the wire in a timely fashion), but the result speaks for itself. The Oilers have been the worst team in the NHL over the last quarter of the season. They had nothing to play for Saturday, in fact they would have been better off losing to help their draft position. Yet the Flames blow a two goal lead and drop their third straight game.

It was just one week ago that Calgary had rattled off six straight wins and I was trying to narrow down just how many I was going to take in the pool this year. Their current losing streak has me wondering if I should take any.

Calgary will play a Detroit in the first round, a match-up I thought would favour the Flames. Now I'm not so sure. I'll take a closer look at this pairing and the rest of the first round series a little bit later, but for now let me direct you to a couple of Red Wings bloggers who do fine work.

Christy is a student who runs the Behind the Jersey blog.

Bill does a great job at Abel to Yzerman