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Originally Posted by magicpixels
You just emphasized the main issue with most hockey fans on Calgary Puck. We look at a team on paper and think it's a good team. So what's wrong with Calgary?
1. Our Coach Sucks, nobody outside Calgary would have hired him.
2. Our star players are only getting older.
3. We have some weak guy on D.
4. Good chance Hudler, Cervenka, Baerstchi, Wideman don't score 20 goals combined.
5. We've had less than a week to learn an entire new system.
6. Our core players and team in general get off to slow starts.
See where this list goes. A lot of negatives regarding the flames as well as other teams. The flames have a range that most people have put them in and it's 11th to 14th. There isn't any inaccurate about that.
You are literally talking about 4-6 points being the difference between 9th and 14th place so there is nothing wrong with 14th and if anything you should be hoping we finish in that spot as it's going to give us a shot at MaKinnon, Drouin and Jones.
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Hudler, Wideman and Sven alone will produce more goals than that. To say four players wont be able to produce 20 goals when two of them are proven points producers is just silly. I am not Biased and am well aware of the Flames' shortcomings.
You cannot convince me in any way that a coach that took a far inferior team like the thrashers to their first and ONLY playoff appearance, sucks. The sentence I just typed above debunks your comment right there.
Slow starts are common in many other teams as well, not just the Flames. In the past the Flames flew as Jarome flew, this year there is secondary scoring help, much better than Moss, TKO and Jokinen.
I never said the Flames D was perfect, Sure there are weaknesses, just less weaknesses than say the Oilers, or Anaheim, Dallas or even DET for that matter. Depth will be huge this season and the Flames have an abundance of Depth which is a good thing.
And if Kipper is an aging star goalie, I would still rather have him in net than Varlamov , Dubnyk or 24 other goalies in the league.