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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Based on the fact that the team won the division last year, and has several very good players on the roster who dramatically underachieved this season, and yet still barely missed the playoffs. But, neither of us really knows, since there are so many moving pieces. We will see how things look in September, but right now the Flames could be anything.
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I just can't look at that 21/22 team and draw anything from it anymore. That team lost their two best players, and no team can take something like that in stride. Markstrom posted a career-best season. That season was peak for that "build" of the team, but looking at it for the basis for any comparison to the roster as it is today just doesn't work for me. A number of pieces of that 21/22 that are still here are entering that danger-zone age-wise and there isn't a new wave of young talent to compensate for that in my eyes.