The big one that stands out to me is shooting percentage. The Flames are shooting at 11.5% and have 5 guys over 20% right now. Obviously that's not sustainable long term. So either they're going to need to generate more shots (they're currently 28th in the league in that regard) or their offense is going to dip.
Yeah sometimes if you build up a huge cushion in the standings you can handle a regression later on like Colorado and Toronto have in the past, but the Flames are only 2 points up on 5th in the division so without an increase in shots they're probably not going to survive the inevitable dip in shooting percentage.
But does this even really matter? Most people picked the Flames to finish at the bottom of the league. People should be happy at how well key young guys are performing and be laughing at the Oilers rather than freaking out because some journalist is poking holes in the Flames' record.
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