If mods this feel this isn't worthy of a thread just put it in the armchair GM one or whatever, but I think it is. Anyway...
The offense coming out of this team is nothing short of a total disaster. If you take out shootout goals, the flames are averaging 2.38 g/game, which is good for DEAD LAST in the league. If you pace that towards an 82 game schedule, that gets you to just 195 goals in a season (which would be 14 less than the 2013-14 Flames that were all but tanking for a high pick, and 20 less than the 2017-18 flames). That's also a nearly 100 goal drop from last season. Simply put, Peters needs to start tuning his system asap because this team isn't generating any resemblance of consistent offense.
And the offensive futility is pretty much across the board. Gaudreau is pacing for about 60 pts this season (which would be a 40% drop from last year and a career low), Monahan is pacing for just 16 goals (less than half his total last year and 6 less than his previous career low), Backs is pacing for just 28 pts (which would be his worst season in forever), the trio of sadness in Frolo, Looch, and Janks have a combined total of 1 goal and 7 points with 72 games played...
Both Tkachuk and Lindy are pacing for over 30 goals... the 3rd leading scorer (3 way tie in Gaudreau, Monahan, and Mangiapane) is on pace for just 16. This team had 5 20 goal scorers and 2 PPG players last year; right now, we aren't coming close to that. I expected some regression to the mean, but to go from second to last is a big indictment of how how poorly this team is playing. And if people are just hoping the PDO gods show mercy... well, it wasn't like that exactly ever came to be in 2017-18. Considering the quality of our transition play, I wouldn't be surprised if this continued until something drastically changes. Lots of work ahead for this squad.
The offense coming out of this team is nothing short of a total disaster. If you take out shootout goals, the flames are averaging 2.38 g/game, which is good for DEAD LAST in the league. If you pace that towards an 82 game schedule, that gets you to just 195 goals in a season (which would be 14 less than the 2013-14 Flames that were all but tanking for a high pick, and 20 less than the 2017-18 flames). That's also a nearly 100 goal drop from last season. Simply put, Peters needs to start tuning his system asap because this team isn't generating any resemblance of consistent offense.
And the offensive futility is pretty much across the board. Gaudreau is pacing for about 60 pts this season (which would be a 40% drop from last year and a career low), Monahan is pacing for just 16 goals (less than half his total last year and 6 less than his previous career low), Backs is pacing for just 28 pts (which would be his worst season in forever), the trio of sadness in Frolo, Looch, and Janks have a combined total of 1 goal and 7 points with 72 games played...
Both Tkachuk and Lindy are pacing for over 30 goals... the 3rd leading scorer (3 way tie in Gaudreau, Monahan, and Mangiapane) is on pace for just 16. This team had 5 20 goal scorers and 2 PPG players last year; right now, we aren't coming close to that. I expected some regression to the mean, but to go from second to last is a big indictment of how how poorly this team is playing. And if people are just hoping the PDO gods show mercy... well, it wasn't like that exactly ever came to be in 2017-18. Considering the quality of our transition play, I wouldn't be surprised if this continued until something drastically changes. Lots of work ahead for this squad.