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Originally Posted by Beatle17
On the powerplay I can not understand why the players carry the puck up the ice, wait until everyone is standing around and then pass the puck to Iginla at the blue line. I love his scoring ability but he is possibly the second worst player, after Glencross, to carry the puck into the zone.
He tries and tries to make the same move and it doesn't work. I am not blaming him but I just think they are not utilizing the correct plays in that situation. Oh, and Giordano is brutal, every game this year.
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Totally agree, unfortunately the only other thing they ever do is get all the forwards lined up waiting @ the blue line and rifle it in around the boards. Except the flames forwards aren't staking so its a free puck for the opposing team who then ices it back down and goes off for a line change.
I'm sorry but the Flames power play pressure is easily the worst I've seen in a while. I think the only time its looked deadly was when Cervenka was winning 90% of his face offs in the zone. Outside of that they never seem to be able to even get into a rhythm because of what you outlined above.
Just disgusting, time to change up the PP units.