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Originally Posted by Psytic
This is it Bednar solved Johnny and by extension solved the Flames offence and the rest of the league was watching the dismantling. The team isn't that deep we got a first line and Tkachuck. The offense lives and dies on Johnny carrying it in and button hooking and distributing. Monahan lives and dies on sick passes for tap ins. All teams have to do is smother Johnny's button hook ala Zadorov and force the dump and chase and they are hooped.
Peters had no answer in the playoffs and he has no answer now. I don't know if we have the personnel to change up our zone entries and distribution to the slot but right now its all dump ins and perimeter play they cant penetrate the high danger box anymore last year they were one of the best, this year their high danger goals for are way down. teams are just forchecking johnny hard and keeping everyone to the outside.
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Another poster doing mental gymnastics trying to blame anybody but Gaudreau for Gaudreau’s crap play.
Gaudreau isn’t making smart plays with puck
Gaudreau isn’t hard on the puck
Gaudreau isn’t winning any battles
Gaudreau doesn’t look dangerous either shooting or passing
But let’s just ignore all that and make it about Bednar and Peters and then we won’t have to face the sad reality that our star player is at the heart of the problem.