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Originally Posted by zamler
Not really. Iginla has taken many games off, you can't blame the players around him for that. And he's been a no show in many important games, plus his slow starts have really hurt the team.
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So if you swapped Iginla for a slightly less (or even equally) talented, but considerably more consistent star, we'd be fine? I highly doubt that. I love nothing more than watching the Flames play a perfect 60 minutes and disable anything the opponents throw at them, but there's a reason they can't do that every night, and it's not one tiny little tweak, or fix. It's not a coach. It's not one player. It's not "who has the 'c'".
The reason is that we are "outclassed" by a team which is simply better. They are able to do it more consistently because they have more tools. They have more players capable of more things, be it out-muscling opponents, or dangling around them, or having more puck possession due to having plain old better hockey sense. There are ALWAYS two teams on the ice. Of course when you lose, you can't control what the other team does, and you want to find your mistakes in hopes of finding ways to win, but the Flames most often don't have the tools to do so.