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Originally Posted by Table 5
Just FYI, the Flames had a +5 Goal Differential last year. This year they stand at -36. I would say that's a pretty big difference.
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If you read any of my previous post, I said that 90% of this season, the Flames had a relatively neutral goal differential. It wasn't until the last 9 games that the goal differential has blown which is due mostly to major injuries and very poor goaltending from Gillies, Rittich and Smith.
As Treliving said in the Francis article, you don't stick dynamite and blow this thing up just because they've fallen apart. I take this last part of the season with a grain of salt, when this team was at it's best, they were about even in the goal differential mark and that's the team I'll judge. Not this current AHL line up with Nick Shore as the 1st line center.