Speculation: Armchair GM 2024-25 Season, Craig Conroy's Can Do Calgary Flames

[crackdown44]

Both should normalize somewhat, right?
We have the 2nd best SV% 5v5 in the NHL.
We have the 3rd lowest SH% 5v5 in the NHL.
Our PDO is right in the middle of the league.

Telling us that a move to the mean would pretty much have us in the same result.

It's actually really funny, that this team when sorting for SH% is surrounded by teams that get caved in mostly 5v5. We are a flat out 50% club.

I agree with @Tkachuk Norris though. This team needs probably 2 or 3 elite pieces still. They got the goalie box checked. They might have a defender box checked with the young man in the OHL. Up front they need to add some big pieces here, and it's going to be interesting how they do it.

Agreed to an extent. I think truly elite goalies in the NHL will always get you average at worst, top ten being the minimum norm. But with every passing year, the number of goalies that can consistently do that drops.

Agree with both of you all I was trying to say is that it’s not fair to say this team will start scoring but goaltending will continue to be lights out. Both probably revert back a bit but the reality is our goalie is sick and our forwards aren’t so we’re probably right around where we should be

 

[Rubi]

So many posters seem to be excited about this team and possible player development and future playoff and cup possibilities.

Maybe I'm a glass half empty kind of guy but I'm finding it extremely difficult to get on the bandwagon as I see a team with a possibly elite goalie surrounded by average to below average NHL'ers who have difficulty scoring on a regular basis, and in order to win have to hustle their asses off every minute of the game and have to play near perfect mistake free hockey to give themselves a chance to win.... And that's in the regular season. The outlook looks dimmer in the playoffs when everyone ups their game .

The chances are extremely high that this team won't have a single 30 goal scorer on the roster. That's pitiful. Also we have dmen playing on the top 2 pairings that have no right to be there. Any other team and they'd be getting 3rd pairing minutes. We do have some nice prospects in the pipeline but I just don't see anyone that's a game breaker who opposing players and fans fear every time he has the puck on his stick. IMHO in order to have a legitimate change at winning the cup you, 9 times out of 10, need that type of player on your team.

For me, right now, I see a future chock full of mediocrity and disappointment.