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Originally Posted by dino7c
The Flames with Zadorov, Hanifin, Tanev, Lindholm, Markstom were an amazing....one game under .500 the day the first of them were traded and the Flames finished
you guessed it
One game under .500
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The Flames went 2-7-1 in their first 10 games. They had just completely changed their defensive system and the players were in disarray. On any given night, some of them were playing zone defence, some were slipping back to man defence, and some were just lost.
When Zadorov was traded, they were 9-10-3. That means that in the intervening 12 games, they went 7-3-2. Subsequent results showed that Zadorov was making little difference one way or the other, so it's silly to cherry-pick that date for comparison purposes.
On February 28, when Tanev was traded, they were 29-25-5, and they were also four games over .500 on March 6 when Hanifin was traded.
After the first 10 games, the team went 28-19-4 leading up to the Hanifin trade. That's a .588 winning percentage, which would normally put a team on the playoff bubble if it extended over a full season. But because of the bad start, they were nowhere near a playoff spot, which is why they sold off so many players and re-signed so few.
After the Hanifin trade, the team was 8-13-0 for a .381 winning percentage. That's not ‘one game below .500’ territory, that's ‘flirting with last overall’ territory.
Since then, they've shipped out Markstrom, Mangiapane, Kylington, and Greer (plus a couple of depth D), and added Mantha, Lomberg, Bean, Bahl, and Cooley. I don't see how this team is better now than it was in March and April.
