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Originally Posted by GioforPM
True, but they just lost their top scoring D.
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Yeah, they need to improve their offense from the blueline.
Have run the numbers multiple times over the years and the line in the sand is 150 points. If you get north of 150 pts from your blueline, you are almost certainly in the playoffs. If you get less, you are almost certainly out.
Boston is an ongoing exception, and there are minor variances from year to year, but the correlation is very high.
And as it stands right now, the Flames won't get anywhere near 150 pts from the D - they'll be lucky to get 100. A guy like Barrie would change that drastically.
Would have taken Yandle at $900k (and I hate Yandle)