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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's rare that teams over an 80 game season have all three of offense, defense, and goaltending all playing at their peaks for prolonged periods. There's simply too many fluid variables to be able to predict future success based on past play. Chances are if the 1st line catches fire again that the defense or goaltending may drop off and cancel out any offensive gains. Really it's all about how efficient a coaching staff is at running effective practices, player management, on ice effort level night to night, and scratching and clawing your way to wins on nights when maybe your guys aren't at their best. This team hasn't done that which is why after a month of people speculating advanced stats point to good things coming nothing has come. Advanced stats are a nice way for fans to buy hope but the reality is that they aren't a magic crystal ball of predicting the future or success for that matter when you consider the current back to back Stanley Cup champions have totally gone against the grain of advanced stats.
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I agree that very rarely will you see all aspects fire together. Problem is when the first line dips so dramatically it will hurt a team. Especially when they are given the bulk of the ice time.