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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Let's look at the 10 most important and impactful players on the Flames, and how they performed last season (in order of who I think is the most important):
Huberdeau: career worst season
Lindholm: slow start, some good periods, but overall, so so
Markstrom: terrible - career worst? (relative to expectations)
Kadri: good start, but disastrous overall, and beyond horrific down the stretch
Andersson: very good
Weegar: slow first half, ended strong
Backlund: really good
Toffoli: slow start, but ended up as a career year
Mangiapane: poor overall, sometimes very bad
Hanifin: meh
Can anyone look at that list and think they won't be better this year?
Then you look at the changes: Lucic, Lewis, Ritchie, Stone out; Pelletier, Coronato, Duehr, Wolf in
Pretty easy to imagine they'll be better this year, IMO
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For context, Weegar didn’t just finish strong - he was the Flames most effective D at 5v5 and on the PK, by a country light year.
Among D who played at least 1400 minutes at even strength, the man was the best shot suppressor in the entire league - 21.2 shots against per 60, which is almost four entire shots better than #2 - Drew Doughty.
On the PK, Weegar’s SA/60 was easily best on the team at 38.96 - Hanifin, playing 50 more short handed minutes, had a SA/60 of 53.9. He was a comparative disaster on the PK.
Play MacKenzie Weegar like he’s Doughty and good things will happen.