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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
This is the kind of free pass that allows the star players to be crushed on a regular basis and just keeps Canadian teams all over the NTC/NMC. If the Flames had better 4th line scoring production like the good teams have (i.e. Maroon - TBL, Spezza - TML), then the Flames would've been a much better team this season.
Seriously, where would the Flames be right now if they had the 30 points from Jason Spezza on the 4th line? We'd be a playoff team right now, that's where we'd be. The conversation would be about Toronto vs Calgary game 1 last night.
4th lines can be difference makers. If you have terrible 4th line production like we got from most guys that played down there, then that puts immense pressure on your top line to produce every single night and that's tough because we don't have elite superstars to begin with. So at the end of the day, we got what we deserved, a low scoring team that just missed the playoffs.
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Maroon had 4 goals. 2 of them were on the power play, where I imagine he stands in front of the net. How much difference did he really make?