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Originally Posted by Bingo
The Flames just look lost to me. They didn't have any of the play last night. A shift here or there, and two powerplays that looked somewhat dangerous, but otherwise they were out chanced and out played by a team that was winless coming in.
The effort seems down, or at very least misplaced in individual effort.
Hard working teams can be effective. Hard working teams that evolve and add talent can move up the standings.
Hard working teams that add talent and then stop what got them there go nowhere.
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100% agree. The thing I worry about is that they'll sit back and just try to go through the motions instead of working their way out of it. It's a fear carried over from the Iginla era and one that I didn't have at all from last years team.
The defense is clearly missing Brodie, but injuries are apart of the game and there's plenty of bodies there that need to, and can, play better. It might be time to take Hamilton off the top pairing. He came in with such hype that I often forget he is only 21 years old. I love his ability to skate the puck up the ice and in the offensive zone he is very good, but he lacks polish defensively and he and Giordano are getting exposed as a pairing at the moment. It might be time to start putting all the lines in a blender, quite frankly.