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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Nice work. A pet peeve of mine is always hearing about how stars need to be your best players every night. I hate that because stars don’t score every game, if anything the average star forward scores in roughly 40-50 games per 82 game seasons. So in other words, they stars get shutdown a lot.
This is why your 4th line can’t be a black hole offensively, especially for a team like the Flames who don’t have elite superstars. If Toronto is going to have elite superstars and superior 4th line depth, than who’s going to have the scoring advantage in a 7 game series?
That’s why when I hear stuff like, “who cares, he’s a 4th liner.” It’s an incredibly poor take IMO. 4th liners play every game, they play roughly 20% of the game, so they should be EXPECTED to chip in. The Flames didn’t receive enough from their bottom tier forwards and that’s a major contributing factor as to why they’re out of the playoffs.
You can’t have a guy play 40-50 games and give you 1 goal, that’s unacceptable. The Flames would do themselves a big favor by finding some really high quality 4th liners, because if they can win their matchups most nights, then that’s 20% of the game right there. Win enough shifts, win enough match ups and I like this team’s chance of winning enough games to get back to the dance.
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The 7 forwards we will end up protecting for the expansion draft are really our only valuable ones we have at the NHL level, all things considered.
The rest were playing too high in the lineup or are overpaid for what they bring.
Depending on how you want to classify Lucic, that’s 4-5 regular forwards that just aren’t good enough.
It’s no real mystery why we struggled to score and failed to make the playoffs.