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Originally Posted by Vulcan
The Flames in their 10 games this March have given up a total of 230 shots on goal. A 23 shots on goal per game. This has to be in our Daryl Sutter coaching era of playing stingy defence.
In that time we've also given up only 22 goals which over a season would put us about 4th in the league for GA/G average. Our goalies have been decent but our team defence is really showing improvement. Something I never expected from Hartley's system and a good boding for our future.
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Having Gio, Brodie, Smid and Russell as the top 4 is part of it (when Gio or Smid are hurt, and Widman gets top 4 minutes, the defensive zone coverage suffers)
The goaltending has been better than it was early in the year.
And there a bunch of kids in the lineup, busting their butts to try and impress the coach.
Also, Backlund has been playing great in his own zone.