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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
The Flames will need Markstrom to be better than that if they want a sniff of the playoffs this year. That 4th goal was a real back breaker for a team that's going to have some trouble scoring goals.
Hopefully adding Coleman to the lineup will give it a bit more depth, and let the lines get in sync better. Early on I thought Dube and Mangiapane did look good with Monahan, but as things got mixed up partly due to 11 forwards as the game wore on that wore off and both Monahan and Dube tailed off. Mangiapane looked really good no matter who he played with. Not sure if they'll go with a Monahan/Mangiapane/Coleman second line next game, I wouldn't hate it if they went back to Dube and Mangiapane with Monahan and tried Backlund/Lucic/Coleman with some of the tougher matchups on Monday.
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The Flames need to be able to score more than 2 goals on 50+ shots (against a very average defensive team) if they hope to sniff the playoffs. I'm so sick of our fanbase ultimately putting the onus on the goalies when making that save was meaningless in the grand scheme of things since, you know, the team can't score. Again.
Mangiapane, Dube, Coleman, Gaudreau and Lindholm are nice top 6 pieces that have certainly taken a positive step this year, but they most definitely need ride shotgun with at least one seriously gifted center in order to make this team a real threat capable of competing with decent playoff level teams.