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Originally Posted by transplant99
That is you projecting what you want things to be.
How about 16-17 and 17-18? You didnt include those years when many of the same guys were involved...wonder why?
Good/great for 60 games.
Really less than average for 3 1/4 years around those 60
Which would likely be more indicative of the truth?
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Not even close to the same thing.
Those teams had great underlying numbers and generally dictated play and drove possession.
Difference is they had the 25th best shooting percentage and 25th best save percentage in the league.
This team is different. They don’t dictate play. They are passive and collapse in their own zone. And their underlying stats have cratered in comparison to under Gulutzan and Peters iterations of the Flames.
Only thing keeping them afloat is Ward is getting decent shooting percentage (8.31% - 13th) and amazing goaltending (.926 - 6th) but his system is having them play way worse everywhere else on the ice.
In fact on the nights where Ward doesn’t get good goaltending the result often looks like tonight.
And that’s the biggest problem. These aren’t the same problems we’ve seen before, this team is playing worse than it has under any of the previous coaches. That’s why I think Ward and his systems are the biggest issue right now.