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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This was not the intent of my post. I was merely pointing out that despite their awful finish it is likely that the Flames are much better than bottom-five in NHL scoring. With the same essential personnel the Flames have been considerably more productive in previous seasons, so I tend to think that their #27 finish in NHL scoring is an outlier. That is all.
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Well I guess whether they are bottom 5 or just bad, I don't feel like there is much of a difference. They are not good at scoring.
The Ducks playoff series from last year was very telling. With time to game plan, the Flames 5 on 5 offense was shut down to the tune of 2 goals in 4+ games IIRC. And I don't recall luck being much of a factor.
So IMO there is ample evidence that the Flames are a bad offensive team. Changing nothing from last year, they are as likely to score fewer goals as they are to score more IMO.
Now fortunately they are changing some things. At a minimum, a new system will be put in place. What this organization is lacking more than anything else is another dynamic young scoring prospect. That is going to be hard to find.