I know. It’s a little repetitive.
When your best players are better than the opposition’s best players , your team will win minimally, 80-85 % of the time ...and vice versa. That why they get the big bucks.
The Flames record up to this point, verifies that IMO.
The lower line(s) , 3rd D pairing and 2nd goalie are there to limit goals against , help maintain tempo, and help chip in with some secondary offence.
However, they are 85-90 percent of the time, not the positive difference makers.
Go back and review the games, the Flames best players have not been good enough in 50-60 % of the games.
For the 40-50% of the time they have been better , the Flames have won!
IMO, a huge part of the poor start and record lies on their shoulders.
Consistent winning starts there. They need to be consistently better. A lot f’n better.
We can ramble on and there are some valid coaching questions being asked...but in the end, as we’ve ( I’ve) seen, the best players commitment to play their best decides wins and losses.
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