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Originally Posted by midniteowl
Totally agree!! No urgency was exactly what I saw, in a lot of games after the All Star break, you can see it in power play. They just passed the puck around or do the nonchalant flip pass that end up on their opponents' sticks for a shorty. I remember I almost lost my voice for yelling at the TV.
Peters needs to give a friendly ring to Mr. D Sutter on how he can bring his players intensity up close to the playoff. Hindsight, may be they should have rested all those players once they clinched the 1st in the Conference. Those players looked like they are too rested and into stale territory.
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Perhaps no urgency but what I saw was a COL that was just a better skating team overall. It's not to say CGY is a slow team but man for man COL was faster.
To that end CGY tried to play a way where they weren't getting burned on the regular. So they played very conservative they actually looked like last year's team.
What do you do when you go up against a team faster than you? You try to make sure you stay above them and have guys back. You don't be as aggressive because if the play goes the other way you get beat up ice.
CGY had to play an uncharacteristic style - cautious - it took away from their identity because they, to me, took on another identity - safe. You can have all the urgency in the world but if the other team can skate you out of the rink it doesn't matter.
Peters was right - the team has to get faster and bigger (play bigger too).