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Wiggum_PI · 12-03-2017, 02:37 AM

I think the Flames are way to passive on the forecheck. They give the opposition easy exits out of their own zone, and then get stuck trying to defend them at full speed on the blue line.

I think the Flames breakouts are mostly ineffective and very predictable. It looks like beer league style, where they just shovel the puck up the boards and hope to clear the zone. Late in the 3rd period the d men were skating it out and hitting the forwards with passes deep in the neutral zone at speed, and it was working. Would like to see more of that.

I would put Stone on the PP instead of Brodie because he has a bomb of a shot, and will actually use it. Brodie is easy to defend on the PK, because he's always pass first.

12-03-2017, 02:37 AM	#302
Wiggum_PI Scoring Winger Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Calgary Exp:	I think the Flames are way to passive on the forecheck. They give the opposition easy exits out of their own zone, and then get stuck trying to defend them at full speed on the blue line. I think the Flames breakouts are mostly ineffective and very predictable. It looks like beer league style, where they just shovel the puck up the boards and hope to clear the zone. Late in the 3rd period the d men were skating it out and hitting the forwards with passes deep in the neutral zone at speed, and it was working. Would like to see more of that. I would put Stone on the PP instead of Brodie because he has a bomb of a shot, and will actually use it. Brodie is easy to defend on the PK, because he's always pass first.