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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Small sample size but is Gio falling off?
Do you see Hanifin as breaking out into a top d-man?
The only Flame making their top 10 lists is Nordstom. He ranks as the 3rd worst skater in the league
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Not much to argue there, and because you're using actual performance measures and not +/- or penalty minutes or simply points it matches the eye test.
The Giordano/Andersson pairing is a concern. The question is who is driving that?
In the ten game playoff in August the Flames had some pretty poor numbers by the time they took their beating from Dallas, but some were worse than others.
Andersson was last of the 6th defenders with an xGF% of 43%. Giordano was 2nd to Gustafsson.
To start this season as a pairing they've been pretty terrible at 42%, but getting better.
Giordano was 75% in the second game against Vancouver, and 53% in the last game against Toronto. Andersson 65% and 60%
I'd have to watch them closely to get an eye on if one guy is pulling the other guy down, or if it's a pairing that is just working out kinks.