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Originally Posted by direwolf
Was just listening to Elliotte Friedman from his appearance on the Fan this morning, and he thinks the problem with the Flames isn't so much a lack of offence, but a lack of meanness and killer instinct. As he put it, they don't have that "F U attitude" that a lot of other teams have, and as a result they seem unable to stomp on the other team's throat when they have them down like last night in Edmonton, and the LA game.
I agree somewhat with the killer instinct part, but I thought it was odd that he didn't mention anything about their dreadful PP, which is arguably the biggest issue with the Flames right now, and is actually costing them wins. Maybe a lack of killer instinct is directly affecting the PP, and that's partly why it's so atrocious? Who knows.
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The beautiful thing about saying general things like they lack killer instinct is you can pretty much attribute anything to it and it will support your non specific claim. Power play no good? Lack of killer instinct. Penalty kill? Killer instinct. Soft defensive play? Killer instinct. Lose several shootouts? Killer instinct problem. Blue line giveaways? Just change your instinct, stupid!
Doesn't mean he's wrong. It's a pretty hard to qualify thing. This team has appeared to have this "instinct" at times this season and at other times, it appears they don't.
Really, having killer instinct just means "win hockey games".
If this team has a mentality problem, it's really going to be up to the players to overcome that. I'm optimistic that it will happen.