Bad decision making is our issue. There's a personality conflict or some thing causing them to;
A: Make selfish plays
B: Make low probability plays
C: Make fancy plays over simple fundamental decisions.
Hockey is like poker, similar situations occur frequently and the repeated laws of probability usually determines the outcome. The team is consistently making plays that have less than 50% chance of working. The beauty dangle goal is actually a bad thing because it means the team is making low probability plays repeatedly. It should be
Gain possession of puck
Move puck up ice to a player in an open area that will have time to make another pass to another open player
Gain possession of zone
Look for cross crease pass, if it's not there the puck carrier can stop at half boards and bring it back to the d/trailing forward or fire it behind the net or carry it behind the net if the opposition backs up. Forcing the d to consider multiple options increases probability of establishing a scoring chance.
Flames aren't doing any of those. Get puck, fire it quickly to whoever, bobble puck, skill player gets frustrated tries to score on his own, turns puck over on low probability deke or weak bad angle shot, repeat.
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