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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
To be fair without the Kipper of last season we likely would have been 30th in team defense too.
Our defensive zone positioning has been pretty bad but our goaltending has been terrible and not really helped in this regard.
We are actually only 8th in the league in shots against (terrible stat I know) but have a .883 save percentage which is 3rd last in the league.
I think our records are actually identical after 20 or so games last season and this team did that with Kipper out and only one actual center.
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Yeah but Kipper's play is generally a reflection on the defense as a younger Kipper still had substandard stats of 2.84 GAA and .903 SV in Keenan's last season. Brent's more defensive oriented hockey was not as pretty to watch but more effective for this group. Kipper has been poor but there are times it's a fire drill in front of the Flames net this year and the Kings scored identical powerplay goals over two games where a man was wide open and uncovered at the side of the net. Those little details are on the coaches and I am shocked that after the first game the coaching staff didn't at least look at the tape to see what they were doing and have the players watching for that play. Maybe they did and Bouwmeester (the guilty defenseman that left Brown wide open behind him) had a brain fart. Either way it doesn't look good.