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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
You can still contribute and not put up points. I haven't watched a VGK game this year, so I can't speak for the players listed, but laying the body, mixing it up , being responsible defensively all contribute to winning. What consistent positive contribution have Bennett, Lucic, Leino, Simon Nordstrom, and Backlund made thus far?
IMHO the bolded is completely ridiculous. Worst possible time compared to what? Look at Dallas, two weeks behind and right into 4 straight wins.
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I agree you can still contribute without providing offense. Each player you listed on the Flames has shown the ability to do so previously, six games shouldn't completely toss that out. Backlund always has ups and downs in a season. When he get's going, so will the bottom six. No bottom six is consistently productive in every area of the game throughout the year.
Dallas has beat up on Detroit and Nashville. They are also a team that made it to the finals last season. Calgary has played arguably the two best teams in the division since the break, and were competitive and unlucky to come out without points in both leafs games. To get out of the get as well as we did and then to have to sit while other teams got into game action was a tough break in my opinion. One poor game with your back up in net against a very well built team in Montreal is not enough for me to completely write this team off.
Fair points are being made in this thread, and starting slow in such a shortened season is clearly a troubling sign, but let's give this team another handful of games. If this team was 3-2-1 instead of 2-3-1 the views around here would be completely different.