from Eric Francis of the Calgary Sun,

The Flames can’t be criticized for being down 2-0 in a second-round playoff series they’ll have a hard time prolonging past Friday.

These are simply two teams with different goals.

This Anaheim Ducks team has been carefully constructed for years with only a Stanley Cup in mind.

The Flames focus this year was simply making the playoffs — a large enough step in itself.

Try as one might, it’s damn near impossible to deny the ultimate demise of the Flames will be at the hands of the big bad Ducks — a team that utterly dismantled the Flames in the first 120 minutes of this Western Conference semifinal series.

Former Ducks boss Brian Burke, the head honcho of the Flames, would likely tell you as much over a beer as he’s been on record many times before his self-imposed silence as insisting the Flames simply aren’t hefty enough to skate with a team as big and truculent as the Ducks.

Not yet anyway.

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