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Originally Posted by ComixZone
System.
Ward let it slip that they’re trying to be something other than a scoring team. Hence the seemingly infinite number of dump ins and safe plays every night. It’s why the entire team’s offence has plummeted this year - simple reactionary coaching to a bad playoff series/slide at the end of last year.
Dump it into Gaudreau’s 100 times, and how many times do you think he’ll get it back?
Sure, he could be and should be competing harder - but the way the Flames are playing is not suited for Johnny’s game when he’s on. This team wants to grind and play a slow game. Johnny doesn’t fit - and pretty much no one else does either it would seem. Boring ass hockey, and incredibly ineffective on top of it.
Our breakout is so, so slow. How many odd man rushes do we generate thanks to a quick transition on a nightly basis? It seems low - very low.
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Originally Posted by Envitro
When was the last time this team scored a goal off of the rush?
Not off a cycle or a weird bank-in "hope for the best by throwing it at the net from the side boards". Most of their goals lately are from clappers off the point... seemingly.
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On both of these posts about having a slow breakout and never scoring goals of the rush this is 1000% the 'system' the team is playing right now.
How often does our breakout or offensive attack include a drop pass, a back pass or a full regrouping by flipping the puck back to a defenseman.
Clue: ALL THE DAMN TIME!
The players regroup backwards as a unit so often that they've forgotten to just grab the puck and skate it out of our zone or into the other teams zone. Watch any puck battle (which we rarely win, but thats a separate issue) that we pickup, we
never just attack or skate it, its always flip back to the defense then try to work our way up the ice a group of 5.
Its impossible to get an odd man rush playing like this.
They're playing the style the wings played a decade ago where they always had the puck... except none of our players want the puck (another separate issue) and we're clearly not skilled enough to play this style.
The system is broken and this team is seriously ####ed up.