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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Yes, the Flames need to improve their offense. But lazy players like Vanek are not the answer. There are 3 things that need to be done, which I believe would all help immensely:
1) get a scoring RW (like a Hoffman, not a Vanek)
2) improve the PP (last year they were a 1520th place team in offense most of the year. A better PP throughout the season, and they probably would have been more like 10-15th)
3) utilize the defense properly, and add tempo to the style of play (passing it back and forth between the D caused the forwards to have to stop in the neutral zone. This killed their offensive flow. Guys like Gaudreau could overcome that, but much of the rest of the team - and the bottom 6 in particular - really suffered offensively as a result of the style)
After a bad year, fans are far too negative about the talent on the team. Playing a better style, and getting the confidence level back, will make all the players look better than they did this year.
IMO, this was a bad year, not: this is a bad team
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4) Make sure Brouwer and Hathaway are no more than part-time players next year, if not moved on from entirely. Because one is clearly not good enough anymore to be an NHL level talent, and the other is just not good enough.