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Originally Posted by transplant99
The strength of the Bolts is their offense.
The strength of the Flames is their defense.
You dont blow up your strength and expect to get better somehow, you supplement your weaknesses. Which is what TB has done too. Trading Drouin for Sergachev, trading for Savard to bolster the d last year, along with adding sandpaper/defensive awareness up front in Goodrow and Coleman the previous year.
Maybe you dont believe the Flames D is all that good, I dont know. What the numbers say though is that this club is the elite defensive group in the entire NHL.
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I’d argue the biggest difference in the defensive game for the Flames this year has been the forward support. And the Bolts are undeniably strong offensively but they certainly shut things down defensively too. It’s a 5 man unit, defensive play is not exclusively dictated by defensemen