FlamesNation 2018-19 player evaluations: an introduction
By Ryan Pike
4 years agoThe dust has settled and we’ve all had a bit of time to decompress, so now it’s time to dig down into how the Calgary Flames and the team’s players performed in the 2018-19 season.
We’re limiting the deep dives to the team’s regular players. For each player, we’ll be drilling down into a few aspects of their game:
- What was their role on the team and the expectations for them this season? How were they used and who did they play with (and against)?
- How were their traditional counting stats? Did they score a lot? If they didn’t, why not?
- How were their underlying numbers? Did they drive play for the Flames, or were they merely along for the ride?
- If they had a good season, is it likely that these good times will last? If they had a rough season, is a bounce-back probable?
What, exactly, do the Flames have in the players on their season-ending roster? Over the next few weeks, we’re going to find out.
Goaltenders
- David Rittich
- Mike Smith
Defensemen
- Rasmus Andersson
- TJ Brodie
- Mark Giordano
- Travis Hamonic
- Noah Hanifin
- Oliver Kylington
- Juuso Valimaki
Forwards
- Mikael Backlund
- Sam Bennett
- Austin Czarnik
- Michael Frolik
- Johnny Gaudreau
- Garnet Hathaway
- Mark Jankowski
- Elias Lindholm
- Andrew Mangiapane
- Sean Monahan
- James Neal
- Derek Ryan
- Matthew Tkachuk
But we’ll also be doing a shorter wrap-up focusing on all the part-timers that suited up for the Flames this past season as well: Dillon Dube, Dalton Prout, Oscar Fantenberg, Michael Stone, Alan Quine, Anthony Peluso, Ryan Lomberg, Kerby Rychel and Curtis Lazar. These players weren’t used as much as the others this season, so it’s unfair to really hold them to the same standards, but we’ll apply the same general lens of analysis to these complementary bodies.
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