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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
For starters, it's a tale of two seasons.
Flames under Ward:
24 GP
50.26% CF
51.02% xGF
8.12% SH%
92.47% SV%
Flames under Sutter:
26 GP
54.78% CF
54.24% xGF
8.11% SH%
90.56% SV%
So basically, since Sutter took over, we've played much better hockey... but have not gotten the goaltending needed to win the games in which we outplayed the opponents.
Had Sutter been the coach over the full season, he would have benefited from the solid goaltending we got early on, before the Sigalet Effect took over. Had they been playing Sutter hockey with early season goaltending, they're probably sitting in a playoff spot right now.
I also think Sutter shot himself in the foot early on with his short-lived #1RW Brett Ritchie infatuation. He'd probably like a mulligan on that.
The crazy thing is though, now under both coaches, the shooting percentages are pretty respectable. It's really just the SV% under Sutter and the shot volume under Ward that tanked the season.
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Yeah this isn't what happened....Markstrom got blown the #### up and injured. He then returned from said injury, like many players returning from an injury, he was not nearly as good as he was before the injury.