There is no difficulty in posting in a forum, regardless of the context of the message. You hit post, write some words, hit submit. What is hard is giving the professional hockey teams the benefit of the doubt that they may know what they are doing, and refraining from getting in a useless back and forth over it. You may not agree with them, but when the expression " shame-faced acknowledgement", or "he doesn't know what he is doing". I am turned away from threads because of it and get nothing out of doing it.
So I waited until they won 5 games to complain, because at now maybe some rational discussion about it can happen. It's not easier, it is more constructive.
We can all agree we want the flames are playing fantastic playoff hockey. Currently, I think they doing less thinking and more instinctive play. Backlund touched on it today talking with Ryan Leslie.
Or maybe they are just "playing well".
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Originally Posted by Realtor 1
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.
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