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Originally Posted by Textcritic
If you will take the time to read my post you will see that I have readily admitted as much, when I said that "I will be unsurprised to see the Flames scoring drop a bit with the introduction of a more stringent system."
My contention is with the idea that the Flames are an offensively challenged team that will struggle to score this season with a new coaching system in place. I maintain that any reduction in scoring within a new system will still produce better than average offensive results.
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I did take the time to read your post, thanks. I was referring to your comment of where the Flames offense wouldn't fall of a cliff, and still maintain we don't know where the offense will be with the new coaching regime. This isn't an elite forward group we're talking about here (yet), it's a team that's offensive engine (when they've been successful in the last couple of years) has come from the back end. And with concern of their offensive numbers taking a hit, yes, it's cause for concern of where the offensive slack will be picked up.
It also depends how far you see the defensively stringent system taking us. I look at the 30th overall team D rank and think it will be a hell of a hill to climb to get into the top half of the league (in year 1), especially if goaltending isn't properly addressed. As such, if we're deploying a fringe top 15 offense it will be very hard to see this group being playoff-competitive next year, IMO.