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Originally Posted by blankall
The Flames finished 16th last year, in a year when everything went wrong. So your assuming with everything going right, they'll to battle extra hard to get where they were last year?
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Not everything went wrong. Some players had career years production wise (Backlund, Coleman, Dube, Toffoli, Zadorov). You can't count on that sort of thing every season. In order to improve, players who had down years will need to step up, but other players will have to maintain their production, or others will have to step up as well.
I wouldn't say I am pessimistic, but I am unconvinced because there are just too many question marks.