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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Couple of factors that fancy stats don't cover.
1) The Flames have exactly 1 injury (Vertsteeg) up to this point in time. There has to be a fancy stat that says that injuries to one of the 10 top players is likely to happen before this season is done. The 6/7 D and 12/13/14 forwards are not going to take up the slack.
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I am going ton have to disagree here. Randorf and DeBrusk were attempting to make a similar point the other night during the game by saying that the Flames would be in precisely the same sort of dire straits if they were also missing their entire top line of Gaudreau, Monahan and Ferland. I think that is patently false, and I am actually relatively comfortable with a top six for stretches consisting of Bennett, Jankowski, Hathaway/Jagr, Frolik, Backlund, Tkachuk. The Flames are actually pretty deep up front.
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2) The Flames are a soft team. They are #31 in hits. They don't score many dirty goals and have dirty goals scored against.
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This probably does not matter nearly as much as you imagine it should.
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3) The Flames are slow. They are fast enough compared to other Flames teams but the rest of the league has stepped it up a notch.
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You make it sound as if the Flames are the slowest team in the NHL. They are not.