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Originally Posted by dissentowner
You are wrong. The fact that Ward talked after the game about how they didn't work hard enough to retrieve pucks in corners after dump ins proves it. This guy reminds me of Brian Sutter, his whole system is dump and chase and work hard to retrieve pucks in board battles. That worked great in the big player era but it is outdated and certainly won't work for a small skilled team. I hope they sneak into the playoffs just because they can use the playoff experience but this coach is terrible for this team. There is a reason our skilled forwards always look miserable and don't produce, they can't with the system being employed.
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You want to talk about wrong? Re watch what Ward said and try to find the things you are claiming he said. Because they are not there
I listened to Ward’s 5 minutes on the Flames site. It’s here, I forget how to embed non YouTube video links
https://www.nhl.com/flames/video/pos...0220/c-5259833
He makes a general remark at one point about battles and compete ‘when you throw a puck in the corner, who is going to come up with it?’ but he was not talking about this with respect to their offence.
Some highlights
- he pulled Rittich for a momentum change, they left Rittich hung out to dry on a few of those
- mentions they didn’t win as many battles down low and also that the did not break up as many cycles as usual
- mentions at least twice about sloppy slot coverage and that there needs to be more there
- he felt they didn’t create a lot early as they didn’t have the puck enough and found their legs a bit in the third but at that point you are chasing the game from pretty far away
Seems Ward watched the same game I did