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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
You can say the team was undone by horrid goaltending I would agree with you, but they only scored more than 2 goals in 1 of the 4 games in the playoffs.
You don't win many games in the NHL, in any era, scoring 2 goals per game.
The Flames can't score. Any other problems will be magnified by the fact that the team isn't dangerous and thus not respected in the offensive zone.
This is what I don't get about some posters referring to this team as having the skill level to compete. High skill teams score lots of goals, average skilled teams score an average amount of goals and underskilled teams score below average amounts of goals.
The Flames are 29th in the league in scoring. I think that's an indication of their skill level.
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Because when they were playing well, they
did score goals?
When a team is thinking too much, they aren't going to generate as much offense. Either the whole team is getting less talented, or there is a problem with the style of play/personnel usage/other issue.
I, for one, don't think every player on the team is getting less talented as time goes on.
Look at Jankowski: on fire in the A, get's called up, has a very solid game, then an okay game, then a pretty weak game. That might be because he was just surviving the early game on adrenaline, or it might be because what he is being asked to do is weighing him down.