[djsFlames]

Within the past 2 years
Giordano has put up a 56pt season
Hamilton a 50pt season
Brodie a 45pt season

Giordano's total would've placed him 3rd on the Oilers in scoring after McDavid and Draisaitl, Hamilton 4th after Eberle, Brodie 5th.

The Flames have 3 d-men that can realistically pass 40 points and are able to flirt with or surpass 50 points this season. Giordano and Hamilton have some of the top stats in the league as a pairing. Hamonic was a top pairing d-man in New York, and is now being asked to play as a #4 because of the depth of the Flames D.

Klefbom is the only Oiler d-man that came close to 40 on the Oilers defence, and was the top Oiler d-man with 38 points last season (his career high). Sekera has once hit 44 points in his lengthy career, but has had his production dip and hasn't come close since. He is also expected to miss an extended portion of the season.

You mean to tell me that because Talbot stood on his head, playing over 70 games and managed to keep the Oilers goals against lower than the Flames during what was a circus of a season in net that the Oilers have in any realm of existence a remotely comparable, let alone better defense?

AO has pretty much lost his mind if he means to suggest that.

10/10 times anybody outside of Edmonton is taking the Flames defence over the Oilers going into this season. Figures that some nut jobs in EDM think that they actually have anything better than an average blue line when healthy.