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Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under
I have some serious doubts about this Flames team coming anywhere close to replicating what they did last season. They had a couple excellent months of hockey where they were legitimately dangerous on every shift, then played extremely average hockey, then just plain bad hockey. Couple this with a lot of players having career years last year it's going to be very very hard for the Flames to replicate that kind of production.
I hope it's a playoff team but I doubt this team goes anywhere past the first round. That playoff performance was embarrassing and has still left a sour taste in my mouth.
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Applies, more or less, to every team. That is why they play 82 games.
I also agree with the comment that 'career years' is being over-used. The core is almost all young guys who are continuing to improve, which is to be expected. Will they all put up the numbers they did last year? No, of course not. But there are other players with room to improve.
I see a team with a pretty deep collection of offensive talent, so I would expect their offensive production to be somewhere in the upper tier of the league again this season.