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Originally Posted by Joborule
I agree with dino7c that the biggest problem with the Flames was goal scoring. No matter how much you want to blame goaltending for Flames not having enough wins, and somehow saying it's also why Flames couldn't score more goals (that's a new one to me), the fact of the matter is the Flames are the 7th worst team in the league for goals for per game average at 2.63, while they we're 16th for goals against per game average at 2.85.
In a league where you typically need to score at least 3 goals per game to win, the Flames were unable to do that. And I said the trend of the league with goal scoring increasing, the offense needs to carry goalies more than before. Games where your goalie only lets in 2 goals should be considered great games by them.
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And at the same time, be careful giving goalies too much credit for good numbers under Darryl Sutter.
The game plan is D first. On the offence side, top scorers Iggy and Kopitar both got around 70 points under Sutter and 90 points immediately under the next coach.
As for goalies, Jonathan Quick from 2011-17 was consistently below 2.30, with one horrendous outlier of 2.45. Kipper obviously had 1.70 and 2.07
That’s nothing to gloss over. It’s kind of the whole point with Darryl
In fact, there were some games where Markstrom had something like 3 chances against, 2 goals allowed. Which is a lot worse than 15 chances against and 3 allowed
Also, let’s revisit that double pad stack against Montreal in a 2-1 loss. I’m not sure who else selects that save when a guy carries it across the slot and shoots, it’s usually a desperation save for a quick cross crease pass. It sure left him in a heap with no chance at all to recover for another shot anytime soon. But we can’t talk about that because it was only the second goal, and he had a good game otherwise.
Low event hockey flatters the goalie statistically but leaves no margin for error
Totally agree the Flames goal scoring wasn’t good enough.
But their goaltending wasn’t either. 6x6
They were both problems