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Originally Posted by blankall
The Flames were 3rd from last in the PP. That's the problem, and it's a coaching problem.
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Or a lack of skill. If coaching was the real problem of powerplays, then everyone would just copy everyone else and nobody would be last place because there would be a 31-way tie.
But that’s not the case because the biggest and most important variable is skill and this team lacks it. The roster lacks players with legitimate one shot scoring ability, lacks guys who can score from a distance, that’s why there’s no one timer threat which this team sorely needs. Gio and Dougie have hard shots from the backend, but firing shots from the point isn’t necessarily sustainable which is why the 1-3-1 has become so popular.
The second unit was just a big waste of time as they couldn’t even get set up because their puck retrieval is as bad as it gets. That’s not a coaching problem, that’s a skill problem.