Friends, the Calgary Flames will most likely start the 2022-23 season with the prior season’s top two scorers playing on other teams. But despite these gigantic losses, there’s still probably a path that the Flames can follow that leads to a post-season berth.
To make the playoffs, the Flames will need to embrace the lessons of Moneyball and focus on goal creation and prevention when they look at roster and lineup construction.
If you’re unfamiliar, the book Moneyball (and the film adaptation) follow the Oakland Athletics as they embraced sabermetrics in an effort to stay competitive after they lost their best players in free agency to larger American markets.