[News] Kylington opens up about battle with mental illness, shares excitement for return

[VilleN]

I have a good feeling about the season we're going to see from Kylington this year, might be a bit rusty out of the gates but I think he puts it together this year. If HUberdeau can bounce back to an 80+ pt player, Coronato has a strong rookie campaign and the goaltending sorts itself out... I think we could be a pretty good team this year. Such a strange team though, seemingly lots of potential, strength down the middle, solid D corps, potentially good goaltending... and yet, we could also be hot garbage.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by VilleN

I have a good feeling about the season we're going to see from Kylington this year, might be a bit rusty out of the gates but I think he puts it together this year. If HUberdeau can bounce back to an 80+ pt player, Coronato has a strong rookie campaign and the goaltending sorts itself out... I think we could be a pretty good team this year. Such a strange team though, seemingly lots of potential, strength down the middle, solid D corps, potentially good goaltending... and yet, we could also be hot garbage.

The flames are like xmas morning as a kid. You never know what you’re going to get.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

I'm banking on the good season/bad season pattern to hold true yet again. It's been that way for about 8 years.

Loubo on BB said it well. They crumple under high expectations people put on them after a good season, then when they're expected to continue sucking the next year they blow past the pundits predictions and take teams by surprise.

Hopefully it's another sleeper year, but with more upside (success and reasons to be hopeful moving forward).

At the very least, I don't see Mangiapane, Kadri and Huberdeau all being as invisible as they were for stretches of last season. Maybe one of them continues coasting along uninspiringly, but highly unlikely all three continue on that trajectory.

And Tanev if he can actually get healthy should also be able to bring that steady presence to the middle pairing that earned him the adoration of fans in his first two seasons here.

I'm most intrigued by the situation in net. If the mentality now is about merit over what you were nominated for two seasons ago, then Wolf should have every opportunity to edge markstrom out of starts if he doesn't turn his game around.

[activeStick]

Kylington's purported defensive shortcomings are overstated, at least according to these 2019-2023 (2022) metrics.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1693382084331511835

[Flames1217]

Chart also shows how both Tanev and Weegar absolutely kill it in certain metrics.

[dustygoon]

Jordan Oesterle down in the Skull Emoji area in bottom left. That's what happens when you play for deadmonton, arizona and detroit