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Originally Posted by Bingo
A few theories.
1) What we do know:
- Flames haven't finished, most of their key players are having down years for shooting percentage and on ice shooting percentage (Flames 16th five on five in shooting percentage as a team, 18th with the powerplay)
- Markstrom injury left a big chunk of the season where the Flames weren't getting the save (Flames 19th five on five in save percentage as a team, 25th when killing penalties).
2) The evolution of stats:
- Flames may be the poster team for how much a stat like high danger chances needs more shades of gray. Perhaps they do just enough to trigger an occurrence of a high danger event, but don't have the other elements to truly be dangerous.
3) Murphy's Law:
- Pretty much any and everything that could go wrong has gone wrong this season. Some bad luck is certainly in play.
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Your point #2 is very insightful and I believe accurate.
Unless you count injuries as something good the Flames are the least injured team in the NHL. Derek Ryan 13 games worth 495k of cap space lost is the most impactful injury. Hanifin is the only Flames defenseman to miss a game to injury and they have 2 guys over 30 that are somewhat injury prone Tanev and Gio.
Maybe Monahan and Tkachuk are playing through injuries and that has not helped the team.