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Originally Posted by Textcritic
The Flames were actually WAY better defensively last year, leading the League by a considerable margin in shots and shot-attempts allowed. They were 9th in goals allowed despite having a bottom-ten ranked team save percentage. That only happens with an excellent defense. It is considerably different right now, not just in the offensive zone.
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But this was due to more zone time in the offensive end ie good offence is a good defense. I think i'm saying the same thing in a different way aren't I? We didn't lead the league in shot suppression/ blocked shots did we? (I don't know I haven't looked just going by the eye test from last year).