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Originally Posted by Textcritic
He is right about the 14–15 season being an anomaly, but absolutely dead wrong about this being an issue of possession metrics. I expect that played a part, but he really understated the detrimental effect that poor goaltending had on the Flames performance last year.
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Chicken and Egg scenario. The same thing causing the poor "possession metrics" was a huge contributor to the goaltenders' struggles. Passive defensive play leading to time, space, and penetration. Blocked shots deflecting right to snipers' sticks. Failed breakouts leading to tired corps getting diced up. Horrible box coverage on the PK. Team defense was not very good last year.
Now does that excuse Hiller? No. but both Ramo and Ortio were better than their stats would tell you.