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Originally Posted by Wolven
If next year the list becomes "Weegar, Bahl, Pachal, Bean, Mironmanov, Parekh, Solovyov" then I believe that we would easily see our goals against climb by the "3 goals". But Andersson is really just the last straw of a larger transition.
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If the Flames gave up three more goals per game, they would be giving up an average of 5.93 goals per game. Here is the list of teams that have ever given up 5.93 goals per game in an NHL season:
That's right. It has never happened. The 1974-75 Washington Capitals hold the record at 5.58 – an expansion team composed almost entirely of what were
then replacement-level players. Since the NHL had just expanded to 18 teams and the WHA to 14, there were as many major pro hockey teams in North America as there are now – but few Americans, almost no Europeans, and zero players from behind the Iron Curtain. The talent level of the bottom teams was
abysmal, far worse than you will ever find in a league of established teams with a salary cap. And yet that
still did not make any team give up three goals per game more than this year's Flames have.
You are simply overstating your case massively, based on a faulty understanding of how goals are prevented and how much any one player contributes to that process.