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Originally Posted by flambers
As others have mentioned Flames have key areas of concern
1) Flames will struggle to generate offense (should be in the bottom 10)
2) Defense, they have added but they are all defensive type players. Can the defense move the puck quick enough to be a quick style of play....
3) Back up goalie, their backup will need to play well. Its a risk for sure
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I don't see the Flames ranking between 22-32 for offense.
While the high end isn't super duper, there are 7 guys up front capable of putting up 0.5-1 PPG: Gaudreau, Lindholm, Tkachuk, Mangiapane, Coleman, Monahan, Backlund.
There is easily a large handful of teams with less weapons, even though they might have one that's higher end.
And a few of those guys are in contract years so they'll be a little more hungry for production.
How high they place in terms of GF depends on contributions from defense.
13-18 seems like a realistic ballpark IMO and puts them in that cusp of playoffs which seems on par for this team.