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Originally Posted by Mike F
Gaudreau was flying in the World Cup. And the Bennett line and all defensemen had full camps. Yet, outside of Backlund and Frolik, the team, top to bottom, has struggled at both end of the ice. And they've done so from game 1, despite being picked as anywhere from a wildcard team to a power in the Pacific, so I don't see panic accounting for their struggles in every regular season game and most of the preseason. And, as i said above, they've done so employing some consistent, and consistently unsuccessful, system mechanics.
If most of it isn't coaching, then it must be that most of it is a better roster than the one that was top 10 in the league in goals last year just forgot how to generate offense.
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Then he came back to Calgary ... late and had the weight of the world on his shoulders.
I don't see a lack of try
I see a team's core that doesn't want a repeat of last season that through a combination of bad bounces and getting down early continue to abandon the game plan and do it on their own.