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Originally Posted by Ddavid
First of all with all the changes happening to the lines this season, who would you even consider "3rd/4th line guys" there are currently 7 flames forwards with over 10 points and Backlund would probably be there too if it wasn't for his injury. Cervenka is close at 8 and is steadily progressing to the adjustment of coming into the NHL.
We definitely have trouble on the defensive end I will give you that. But i think that is in large because of poor goal tending so far which we all know Kipper is gunna snap out of.
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Without scoring depth in the lower lines, it just makes it harder when certain guys are not producing normally in the upper lines. Also, the defense core is not assembled properly in that we have mostly offensive style defensemen. Those type of D-men tend to be not as skilled as defensemen in their own end. If we were to have more defensive D-men, that would take away from the goals for, but would cut down the goals against. Overall, there just isn't enough overall talent on the Flames to be a playoff team. There are nice players that are doing a good job, but there just are not enough of them.