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Originally Posted by Doc Hudson
This thread is an over-reactive joke. Teams have ups and downs, if every team fired their coach during a down period there would be 30 coaching changes every season.
All this talk about "no system", "doesn't know what he is doing", "why is this player on that line" is total noise. Hopefully someone has said this, because the thread (in general) is terrible reading and completely uninformed.
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It is easy to come in on a 5 game win streak and post such a thing.
Many of these posts are 5 games ago where the flames were not looking great for a playoff spot. Outside of a 10 game winning streak last year (very unlikely scenario) and this current win streak of 5 that just puts the flames on the playoff bubble, the team has been awful under Glen. I know he takes too much heat, much of which should be directed at Cameron but we cant pretend this down period is some overreaction. It has been a season and a half of more downs than ups with a very talented team.
For the record, I want all of my thoughts to be shoved back at me when the flames are playing fantastic playoff hockey.
Can someone who watches systems and breakouts confirm that the last few weeks have had some big changes in terms of D men carrying the puck longer to open fwds compared to standing still forcing a breakout pass & Mike Smith being much more selective on playing the puck / he leaves it for his d to retrieve more.