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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Nothing about how the Flames played last year in the regular season would suggest that they "overachieved." They were a top team by almost every meaningful metric, but for a power play that suddenly dried up in February. Five games of playoff hockey in April is an extremely limited sample size from which to draw conclusions and to make projections.
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I wouldnt be so quick to dismiss folks concerns. The data you use to determine whether or not the flames overachieved might not be the same data they are using.
For example, some arguments could be that
- the team played a large chunk of their games against an extremely poor pacific division, a division that’s probably going to improve in 19/20.
- the team had a relatively good run with injuries
- the team had a few players with career years, such as Lindholm
- the teams best player is getting to an age where ‘things start slowing down ’
- the team will likely be without Frolik, who some people think is quite important to the structure of the team
- the team will not be able to add any high end players due to cap concerns
For the record, I don’t agree with these arguments, but it’s interesting to hear where some fans anxiety is coming from and it’s not unreasonable
There are probably (certainly) as many arguments to the contrary.