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Originally Posted by ---Hatrick---
Monahan (while injured), Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Ferland all had career years. Hamilton was the leader amongst D men in goals scored. Yes, some players underachieved, but several had great years. Im not advocating keeping GG, just pointing that out
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Monahan and Gaudreau - top line, playing together, and entering their prime. Expected to improve.
Tkachuk is a special player. Career year? Second year, expected to improve.
Ferland having a career year is like Bernie having a great weekend in Weekend at Bernie’s.
Hamilton tied for the league D in goals. Hedman had the same amount of goals but 46 assists. More assists than Hamilton had points. Dougie was 39th in the league in assists by D. There were 8 D that had 60 plus points. Torey Krug also had more assists than Hamilton had points. Dougie had a good but not great year offensively and was hit and miss defensively.
So there were a couple of acceptable results by Flames, but really trying to talk them up in light of the overall body of work is akin to polishing a turd.