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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
I really don't understand the reluctance of some hardcore fans here to criticize the obvious. This was not a close game, where both teams fought really hard and one got luckier. To me, this was a very poorly coached and executed game against the opponent whose game is well-known and was expected. Harltey said as much this morning :"we knew they will be clogging the neutral zone". Well then, what have you done to the game plan to combat that? What's the point of bringing a knife to a gun fight? One poster already commented on the issues of consistently poor PP and poor zone entry this season. That's coaching.
To dismiss the importance of this loss (and a similar loss to Anaheim a little earlier) is to neglect the looming question: what does this team need to do to be able to fight bigger and grittier defensively-oriented teams successfully?
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I agree that there needs to be adjustments against boring neutral zone trapping bull#### passive #### teams like Anaheim and Phoenix, and that Hartley doesn't have an answer for it. We all know we need to get bigger and tougher to play against. We all know special teams has been bad and that's on coaching and our top players. We know that Colborne shouldn't be on the top line. We know that Wideman isn't very good defensively at times, and that Russell is too small for his style of play. We know this was a very important divisional game in the dog days of the season, and that the Flames did not play well.
What do you see as an appropriate reaction? Rip Monahan to shreds for not being intense enough? More piling on Colborne, Russell and Wideman? Call for Hartley's head? Because there are enough posters doing all of these things.