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Originally Posted by Vinny01
The Flames have the best center depth they have had in a long time. Lindholm is on pace for 74pts Kadri 61pts, Backlund 50pts. Huberdeau and Markstrom are the reasons this team is not 1st in the west. Even with one of them playing at last years level this team is first in the Pacific. 4-11 in OT if that record was reversed they would be first in the Pacific. One more save or one more goal would do this team wonders who have lost 20 of 32 1 goal games this year.
Huberdeau and Markstrom need to be better or this team is trending toward the 15th pick in the draft.
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That might be the best comment on the team in about 4 months.
The franchise isn’t a loss.
The coach doesn’t suck.
The team is not fatally flawed
Matthew Phillips is not the saviour
The 2 most important players have been bad. That’s it. That’s the story.
If neither of them come around 15th pick seems likely.
If 1 of them does the team is a playoff lock and a threat to win a round
If both of them do they could win 2-3 rounds.
I think Huberdeau is figuring out how to check and still score as many players have done before him when they wanted to win more than put up points. It took Johnny and Mony a year. Huberdeau is 5-6 months in. I think he’s getting there.
Markstrom I have no clue. Goalies are voodoo.