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Originally Posted by GioforPM
You are looking at this year where players aren't slotted optimally. Backlund will produce more from the centre. Mangiapane - fair enough, though I suspect he's going to be a lot like Frolik, who produced enough to be called a good 3rd line winger at the very least.
And Dube is going to produce. You can just tell. He's got 4 goals, 10 points in 26 games at age 21, in his first real season in the NHL. That's something like a 32 point pace and he's only getting better. It's 4 times his goals and double his points from last year.
Sure, results are what determines it, but I don't think anyone in the league thinks Tkachuk, Lindholm, Gaudreau and Monahan are "second line" NHLers, no matter what this year's stats say.
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For a team jammed packed with first and third liners, the Calgary Flames sure have trouble scoring goals.
And why were the players not being slotted optimally? Presumably because they haven't been producing. Current management obviously feels they are being slotted better now. Not that I necessarily agree with that.
Then Flames top 4 players have been producing like 2nd liners all season long. I agree we need to expect so much more.
I don't think that Johnny's problems are simply a slotting problem. I think the Flames are desperately trying different slotting for its players because Johnny has been so bad this year.
The offense was designed to revolve around him. It's not working so far.