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Originally Posted by Cali Flames Fan
Yeah, not really. He was fairly behind the play and back checked incredibly hard to catch up with the Sharks player. The penalty was a rookie mistake of putting your arm in for too long and allowing the veteran Sharks player to hook him in and fall down. Refs fall for that a lot and he'll need to learn to pull his arm out again, or at least put his hands up indicating that he's let go of the player.
His stamina looked just fine considering how often he'll be out there in an average game. Even if he's a step or two behind the rest of the Flames, so is most of the league in terms of conditioning, so it isn't a slight to his conditioning. He's at least on par with Bollig's stamina, but probably has better speed, agility, and power along with a smart stick, better shot and offensive awareness, and more calculated aggression. He's an upgrade right now as far as I'm concerned, but it's a small sample size and I'd like to see about 5-10 games before I'm certain.
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Disagree about the stamina, he looked good in the first but by the third he looked totally gassed. Also agree to disagree on the penalty as he wouldn't have needed to reach in if the other guy didn't have a step on him.
Agree that it may have been a cheap call but if he would have kept his legs moving he wouldn't have been in that position to begin with. Totally my opinion of course.