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Originally Posted by Bingo
Same old Flames to me.
I'm not with the crowd that thinks Edmonton cruised, the Oilers looked awful last night and they're in big trouble. Why get in the way of being the sober voice of reason to hockey fans though right?
But Calgary was slow off the start, they don't have a goaltender, and they don't seem to have the skill/gumption to finish. Good game defensively, they didn't give up much at all, had some bad bounces, but they just don't drive the game to the tough areas enough.
Talbot is Reggie Lemelin. Square to the shooter, doesn't give up the softie, but you can easily pass it around him because he doesn't move well.
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Similar to my thoughts.
Three things concerned me:
1) the slow start - we've seen that movie before
2) the goaltending
3) the same slow transition game that we saw this past season.
For me, the thing that made them successful the prior season was the speed of the transition game, and the amount that the D joined the attack.
There was some of that last night, and there were lots of good things, like the forecheck, but there were far too many failed clearing attempts from D-men that were standing still, passing to forwards that were standing still. Way too easy to defend.
This is my biggest concern with Ward.