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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Lazar for a 2nd should be a scandal.
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My guess is that is Dave Cameron flexing whatever influence he had, since had him in Ottawa.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Let's give treliving the benefit of the doubt here:
Who could have expected the 17th place team in Goals For would have trouble scoring goals after adding 0 goal scorers to the lineup?
I mean, you'll never guess which team is 19th in the league in goals for this season, a single goal removed from 17th. Seriously, you'll never guess.
Ah, you got me! It's the Flames!
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Treliving was very frank about being very worried in the hour long chat with McKenzie in the fall about where goals were coming from. He hoped some prospects would step up in camp, and that guys like Sam would step up into that role, and they didn’t, and he enabled his plan b to go ahead with Jagr which had previously been discussed. And Sam has not done what’s been required of him lighting the lamp.
Again though, I’ll put more blame on the lost 8-10 or so points that can be pretty easily be identified as to when and where they were wasted, on the coaching tactics and lack of ability to be able to push the players to another level to finish teams off after dominating most of the game...and the terrible PP the last 3 months, more then the lack of having two extra scorers. Flames got out to early leads and GG had well organized. When teams were allowed to hang around and change tactics, Flames staff didn’t counter, or, challenge the roster hard enough to find that next gear and get thet back breaking goal...and it came back to bite them a lot against division opponents and that’s a huge bucket of points that have dropped off the Flames total which they could use right now and on April 7th.