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Originally Posted by OzSome
I am with you on the Matthews points part. I just cannot cheer for the Flames to lose so they will get a chance to win the Austin Matthews sweepstakes.
We are lacking a secondary scoring in this team. We cannot rely on Monahan and Gaudreau to score all the time or rely on defensemen like Brody, Gio or Hamilton to do the scoring. Not happy with Jones and even Ferland who's getting the minutes and not producing. I feel for Bennett having to play with wingers who cannot produce or even help him scores.
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Here are the Flames' third and fourth line forwards by point per 60 minutes
Joe Colborne: 1.72
David Jones: 1.22
Markus Granlund: 1.16 (gone)
Michael Ferland:
1.09
Josh Jooris:
1.02
Matt Stajan:
0.88
Mason Raymond:
0.84
Brandon Bolig:
0.64
Lance Bouma:
0.45
Now here's Chicago's:
Dale Weise: 1.94 (new)
Teuvo Teravainen: 1.67
Tomas Fleischmann: 1.35 (new)
Dennis Rasmussen: 1.28
Richard Panik: 1.28
Andrew Desjardins:
0.68
Bryan Bickell:
0.54
Marcus Kruger:
0.14
It seems that one of the main differences in terms of forward production is that the third liner on Chicago have much more consistent production. Their third line forwards are 30 point guys, while ours are 10 point guys.
Luckily, if Treliving is smart with contracts, I think this could be relatively easy to solve over time.