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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
This focus on our 5th defenseman by some of you fans is borderline unhealthy.
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The thing is even if he is a "5th defenseman" as you put it, he still plays minutes and is scored on in those minutes he plays making it a problem.
You have shifts where the opposition can't get anything going, then Butler jumps over the boards, gives the puck away and we get scored on.
This is a problem. Been a problem for 3 years.
Sad thing is I honestly think he is playing the best hockey of his Flames career, yet he still constantly gives the puck away and it ends up in our net erasing all the good/solid things he did during the game.
I also believe Chris Butler is very fragile, his confidence gets sapped away easily. He does not help his cause with these brutal giveaways. Hard to play with confidence when he continually has brain farts that find their way gift wrapped onto the opponents stick.