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Originally Posted by bubbsy
I've got this bad feeling that things went incredibly well last year for so many flames players, no major injuries, but that there's bound to be a regression to more career average years.
I think having no trade deadline acquisition didn't help stimulate any kind of fire in the team for the playoffs, so they're crap play just continued on into the playoffs.
Going in with basically the same same team next season, feels like more of the same.
Last year felt like the absolute premium output this group can muster, banking on all out career years feels like a highly oiler'ish thing to do.
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Okay but the flip side of that coin is that you have to think Neal can’t possibly have that terrible of a season again, we’ll have a full season/progression of Andersson/Valimaki/Mangiapane and we hopefully won’t have a goaltender that was one of, if not the worst, goalie in the league for 1/2 of the season. Jankowski and Bennett could have better years as well. To think that last years team was firing on all cylinders throughout the entire lineup isn’t accurate at all.