The defensive woes look to be systematic to me. It isn’t a coincidence that all defense,en make the same dumb plays all the time. Just like the stupid predictable drop pass on the PP, the defensemen looked schooled to use the against-the-grain puck movement deep in their own zone, for some unknown reason. It is predictable and it is consistent. The Flames defensemen go out of their way to work against the flow, and it results in turnovers in the defensive zone. This is systematic. This team has way too much talent and players with pure hockey sense to do this crap this consistently without it being part of the system.
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