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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I think last season's roster wasn't great but it was an upgrade on the roster Brent had to work with the season before with the additions of Hudler and Wideman with Jokinen being the lone major piece that left. His team was nowhere near as competitive as Brent's leading to a fire sale at the deadline and this season after a quick start has settled into more of the same. When the team plays well for him they are fun to watch but when they are bad they are god awful defenseively which as of late has been more the norm.
Only the Oilers are worse defensively and in a couple more weeks the Flames may own that title all by themselves. IMO you can turn the corner if your team plays solid defense but has some hard luck on offense but if you can't play defense at all you will never improve or become a solid team. Bob's team can't play defense and I'm leaning to him being the 2nd worst head coach in Flames history after Greg Gilbert although Don Hay is in the conversation as well.
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Gio = top 2 defensman
Brodie = top 4 defenseman
Wideman = middle pairing (O-minded) defenseman
Smid = bottom 4 (D-minded) defenseman
Russell = middle pairing defenseman (nice surprise)
Butler = 6/7th defenseman
Smith = 6/7th defensman
Breen = 6/7th defensman
Sorry but you're not going to have a strong defensive team with this group, especially with Gio out, no matter what the system. We need Sieloff, Wotherspoon, Ramage, Cundari to develop well and develop quickly, in addition to Ekblad
