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Originally Posted by Gaskal
Yeah, makes one's coaching job a lot easier if one whole friggin side of the ice is basically a non-threat all game because of the ####ty forward balancing. You either have to be skating almost backwards or be on the backhand. These days in the NHL with how much tighter the gap control is, you can't split the D unless you are superstar caliber or even get one to open up the inside shooting lane.
Send Dube back down as I don't think he needs to go through waivers for another year, he's been ice cold and largely ineffective. And waive Reider. Bring up Czarnik and Phillips. Hell, bring up ####ing Zavgorodniy at this point.
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I've been noticing for quite a while now that - often - Flames forwards have their back to the play so that receiving a pass they need to turn around first to move forward. That creates more than enough time for defenders to respond. It stuns me how often a Flames player receives a pass at his own, or the offensive, blueline but has his back to the o-zone, so is crippled and can't move. The pass often goes back to someone in the d-zone or neutral zone following that play and the defenders all happily regroup to stymie an offensive threat.
It's a slow momentum-draining style of play.