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Originally Posted by timbit
I honestly don’t know. I am confident that Treliving and his management team will arrive at the right decisions. I am good with what they decide as I like the rest of us have little to no idea of the inner workings of the coach player relationships etc.
Patiently awaiting their findings and solutions.
Their PP has been dreadful. A big part of that is on coaching and some of it is on the top players.
Their goaltending home vs road is a mystery as are their other difficulties at home.
This confuses the hell out of me....
For the first 70 games the Flames had one of the best road records in the NHL along with one of the worst home records.
As far as systems go, with the exception of PP I have absolutely no issues with how they played on the road. One would have to assume that their strategies and systems would not have changed at home. Home record is confounding and astoundingly bad.
I believe a lot of the reason for their upper echelon road record success would be based on individual player mental preparation and the same holds for their failures at home.
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I’ve said it before but it feels like the home woes and stellar road record are one of two things or a combination of both:
1) road games don’t allow GG to try and line match, and since he’s such a bad in-game coach that actually worked to the Flames advantage
2) players are too comfortable at home, pre game prep etc that whatever bad habits they have ingrained into their daily lives are far more easily given into
It really doesn’t make any sense why they were so terrible at home. I lean towards thinking something’s rotten in Denmark but that’s because I love a good melodrama.