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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Well 17th isn't good enough either so I'll leave that to you to decide whether a team worse than more than half of their competition at scoring goals doesn't need a ton of help scoring goals.
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And I have answered this by agreeing that the Flames definitely need to improve offensively. But I take issue with the insinuation that the team is presently a bottom-five scoring team.
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This comparison to other bad Flames teams as a sign of something good is baffling. It's a very Flames Fan quality.
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Yeah, this clearly went right over your head—your condescension helps to demonstrate as much. The point is to show a considerable variation in offence which
strongly suggests that a team consisting of essentially the same personnel finishing a full ten places below their four-year scoring average is probably an outlier.
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Other teams have problems too, finishing 27th in the league is indicative of where they were all season in terms of scoring, whether healthy or unhealthy.
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I am not interesting in anything more than how we measure the Flames's offensive potential moving forward, which includes other teams's problems. I continue to maintain that the Flames are better than their scoring returns from this past season.
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Being 30th in the league in scoring at the start of the season and finishing 27th at the end of the season is probably an indication that yes, they were a bottom 5 scoring team.
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It could be, but for a team that ranks #16 in scoring through 328 games in the past four seasons I would argue that this is more likely an outlier.