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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Peter Loubardias @fan960lou
The Flames being put through a practice to reinforce exactly how they are supposed to play. The original plan did not call for a practice at all
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What does this mean? How do the players still not know how they are supposed to play?
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Is it not knowing, not willing to put in the effort, or just not having the horses to play this system?
Everything we've been told is that Columbus, Pittsburgh, etc play a similar system, and it seems to be working out okay for those teams.
The Gaudreau line is having their best season from a both a production & 200ft game perspective. 3M is not as good as last year but is still a very strong line. Giordano & Hamilton still seem to play good the majority of the time, and both had a really good season in the same system last year. Over the last season and a half those players have excelled in this system - so maybe it's not a system thing.
Really it's just our bottom 6 FWDs, and mostly our second d pairing (hello TJ Brodie), that seem to be having the issue with the "system".
I'm at the point where I'm not sure if the system is too complex for our less talented/lower IQ players, or if GG just isn't a strong enough of a personality to get these guys to work hard every night, and make the smart plays within the system.
It's probably a little bit of both because personally I don't think it was GG's system that told TJ Brodie to just chase nobody up the ice in a 2-2 situation last night.