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Originally Posted by New Era
Maybe in the fancy stats world, but in the real world the Flames got worked on most nights. The strategic weaknesses of their system were obvious and easy to defend against, then counter and take advantage of a poor defensive scheme. Early on those weaknesses were shielded by Smith's play. At the end, the weaknesses were obvious. Spending a lot of time in the offensive zone, generating low quality shots, is not outplaying the opposition, not when they can transition and put little pressure on the defense and generate great scoring opportunities and goals.
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Man this gets old
What is fancy about it? Honestly. It's a world where you put more pucks towards the net than the opposition and run up more scoring chances.
If that's fancy to you I can't help you.
But yeah the team had a terrible bottom six, the top six had the talent and were pretty dominant but they just didn't finish to their career averages and that lack of production made the fact they were out playing the opposition almost useless because it rarely resulted on the scoreboard.