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Originally Posted by Textcritic
There is more to it. Several Flames players suffered historically bad shooting percentages, which I think points to a problem beyond absent skill: Backlund is quite consistently a 10–12% shooter, but was less than 7% this year; the same with Bennett; Frolik's SP was the lowest it has been in five years, and Brodie's less than half of where he has been shooting the past three years. Even though Giordano had a solid year his SP was lower by a bit than it has been the past few seasons.
There is clearly some evidence there to suggest that the key players are good enough, but execution was a serious, perplexing problem for too many of them.
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Was it poor execution, or was it that the team could not sustain pressure enough to create quality scoring chances? Shots don't mean anything if the opposing team is forcing them to either shoot or turn the puck over. That screams systems and motivation problems.