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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Well yeah the special teams could improve without making any changes whatsoever. Statistically speaking they were awful so in fact its very likely. But if one season is too small a small sample size from which to draw conclusions, then obviously six weeks is even more so.
Without a doubt there were many factors beyond Gelinas and I have no idea how much he contributed to the problem. Hopefully management is doing more than relying on reversion to the mean for improvement.
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The Flames PP was actually good for most of the season. Over the last 50 games of the year (December 20th onward) they scored at a rate of 20.8%. That would be good enough for 7th overall if it was for the whole season.
The first 32 games were utterly atrocious though (and not just on the PP), and it's really hard to dig out of that hole. The PP was just 10.3% over those 32 games.
50 games doesn't prove anything one way or the other either, but it's definitely a promising sign, and is much more than the 6 weeks I've seen quoted by a few posters. It's hard to believe, but the Flames PP was good for the majority of the season.