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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Has to be the goaltenders. Too often the Flames would give up an early goal or a soft one after carrying the play and end up chasing games. Which I think lead to some second half scoring struggles as guys pressed too hard and wore out. Fix some of that and the committee of players who all had downish years likely bounce back enough to increase the team goal total by say 15 goals while getting the goals against down by 30. Do that and they're very much in line with where Vegas was for goal differential.
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Not denying bad goaltending had a heavy hand last year, but when the Flames gave up a scoring chance they were typically pretty terrible.