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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Sure, but still relevant. And in those cases, such as last night when Peters - who certainly has not made many mistakes to this point - inexplicably decides the third period of a tie game against the best team in the league is the time to give Neal a big push - and he not only does nothing positive, but loses his man on the 4-3 goal - its going to get commented on.
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You realize that was a bit of a track meet with the Lightning, right? Lindholm had played a lot and had killed a lot of penalties and Bennett was throwing his weight around and skating hard. I don’t like how Neal has played but to blame Peters is a bit odd. It was the best team in the league and the Flames literally needed “all hands on deck”. The fact that Neal failed isn’t really on Peters. It’s on Neal.
Just goes the show the difference between the Flames and Lightning. Flames are short probably two scorers and they desperately need Neal and Jankowski to be legit top six guys. The Flames can match up with the Lightning on the top 5 forwards but they don’t have anyone in pat with guys like Miller, Palat, Killorn, Gourde. In one game, the Flames can hang, but in a seven game series, the depth difference will show. Hell it showed last night by the fact that Peters had to put a struggling Neal out there.