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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Miles ahead? Sorry but that's just not correct. The team has better advanced stats but their record is marginally better and the team's top players are all playing below their potential which is 180 from last season. IMO if anything it's more sideways with improvement in some areas and regression in others.
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The system is better though.
I think the fact that some players are having a tough time with it speaks more to how habits needed to be broken and that said habits would have been broken with most if not all other coaches that could have been brought in.
When I see the mistakes that are being made I can't blame the coach because no coach in their right mind would be instructing players to do the things this team does when they are rattled.
Maybe the team had a core of stallions that had to be broken before they could be retrained to play pro hockey the right way?
I see the Flames as a team light years ahead (ok ahead), but individual mistakes simply killing them.