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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I am very wary of drawing conclusions from games after the team was eliminated. Wideman was awful though.
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I'm very wary of looking at a single season's special teams performance for one team, and drawing sweeping conclusions about what specifically THE problem was. It's complex. It is not just the coach or just the players. If you look carefully through individual teams' special teams performances from one year to the next you will commonly see some dramatic shifts in their ranking from top-to-bottom, from one season to the next.
The point here being that while I do not think the Flames' coaches should be completely absolved of the special teams performance from this year, I am also quite convinced that there were a lot of factors, and that even with the same coaching staff and personnel in place next season, the team would be better.