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Originally Posted by stone hands
This team has had the exact same leaky defence for the last 4 years. This isn’t a new or gg specific problem. The flames have really creative, offensive defensemen who really lack defensive responsibility. That’s all there is to it. Top defence core on paper sounds nice, but when they are a top defence core because of their offence and not their defence thenyoure going to have an almost never ending problem keeping pucks out of your net without stellar goaltending - which has been exactly the case. How many times over the last few years have awful goaltenders problems been exacerbated by totally porous defense?
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I was going to say this. The opinions (and they aren't crazy) that Calgary's D is great is not based on their defensive abilities - it's based on the ability to move the puck and contribute offensively.
Can this change? Sure. I think Hamilton has the makings of a really good defender. He has the size, reach and skating to do so. He just needs to learn it better. Hamonic is pretty good now, but has to play with Brodie, which is hard (Warrener said its a really difficult job to play with a guy like Brodie - it's easier, he said, to play with Wideman). Stone is physical sometimes, but not stellar defensively. I think Kulak could be good, like Hamilton, with seasoning and instruction.
Perhaps the Flames could do with a really top notch defence coach. I'm not even sure who it is now - Jerrard?