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When Glencross is going well, he's good. When he's not, you can tell pretty early and he sucks really bad, and the coaching staff has to sit him for the rest of the game. The guy just looks lazy when he's out of it, like Bourque.

Iggy, I really wouldn't cry if he was traded at this point. I really think this team will be better off without him. Call it the Mark Messier affect or whatever, but I think he just casts too big a shadow over this team. It'd be better for him and the Flames to part ways.

The defensive struggles with this team are nothing new. Even when they were a "defense first" team with Brent, they still were terrible in their own end, and it all boils down to poor defensive coverage. The forwards are ALWAYS flying the zone early and leaving no outlets for the defenceman which leads to turnovers. Sure Butler sucks and flubbed his outlet pass, but if Glencross wasn't cheating to fly the zone, he would have at least prevented Mitchell from getting the puck in a prime scoring area. The leaders have to lead and they have to make sure that puck gets out of their zone.

I honestly don't know why the kept giving the Iginla line more ice time. By the second period, you knew they didn't have it. The Hudler line was going well, and they should have been out every shift. Backlund was great in the third and should have been double shifted.