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Originally Posted by Ashasx
I'm still waiting for something in this team to click. The inconsistency is unreal.
This used to be a team that could never win on the road, now it can never win at home. 90% of the time the other team is more prepared to start the game, and 90% of the time the other team is better to finish the game.
It's hard to watch.
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Not to give Gulutzan a free pass, but the primary issue with our roster is that we lack an elite number one center like Kopitar, Bergeron, Tavares, McDavid, Malkin, Crosby, Stamkos, Matthews, Eichel, Getzlaf, Barkov, MacKinnon who can take a defensive shift and turn it into a goal at the other end... the one-man "miracle shift". Monahan's not that calibre of player and neither is Backlund.
Tkachuk and Gaudreau are very good players but play a position where doing this is almost impossible because of where they are inherently positioned defensively.
The difference isn't the corsi or even the finishing but the lack of gamebreaking transitional play. Before Gulutzan, we had phenominal outlet passers like Gio, Brodie and Wideman mitigating that reality and feeding our transition game. That's gone now. If the Flames are an inconsistent team, it's because they are one-dimensional.