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Originally Posted by New Era
Well, I completely disagree with your disagreement. The weak wing on our team is the RW, and that is the side they prefer to break out on. It doesn't get the puck to the guys you want carrying the puck into the offensive zone. When you have one of the most dynamic puck carriers in the game, you get him the puck! It would be like the Oilers not giving the puck to McDavid.
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ER addressed the problems with your thinking on this nicely, but I wanted to point out that your description of the Flames breakout is nothing like the Oilers not giving the puck to McDavid. Unlike the Oilers, the Flames have other very useful players beyond their top scoring forward.
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Things are improving. They're playing with more speed of late. I'm not certain that is on the Flames behalf or the fact they've caught some teams coming in on the 2nd half of back-to-backs.
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It is because they are controlling the puck better and distributing it more efficiently and accurately. The Flames have continued to have flashes of exactly this throughout the past dozen games or so that must be attributed to more than catching their opposition on their heels.
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Still not happy with his lineup decisions. I think there are better combinations available, Gulutzan just has to open his eyes...
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I think that the coach has demonstrated in the past month that he has a good grasp of the personnel, and I tend to believe that he is exceptionally better equipped to make these decisions than you.
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I think there is room for improvement, but they are looking way better than they did at the start of the season.
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They certainly are. It strikes me as somewhat spiteful to also not extend some of the credit for this improvement to the coaches. Hell, it is even reasonable to expect the team to continue to take strides under these circumstances in the near future.