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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It's interesting that some posters think the collapsing strategy is a result of the Flames game plan and not a response to the stars game plan.
The Flames aren't collapsing to the front of the net because they all remember the Xs and Os from practice, they are doing it because Dallas is flooding the zone and taking the occupied space.
You can either collapse and keep yourself between the goalie and the puck or you can hold your territory and have a dallas player walk right by you unencumbered for a high danger scoring chance.
The reason the flames are playing a perimeter game is they don't have the skill or speed to break down the dallas defensive scheme is Dallas' zone.
When you don't collapse to the front of the net, you get scored on like Oleksiak did in OT when Gaudreau was no longer between him and the net.
This is where the eye test augments the possession statistics. The discrepancy in zone time or events may not appear huge but the practical application of that time and those events is.
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Don't totally agree with that.
They played the same style against Winnipeg but Winnipeg wasn't Dallas.
Against the Jets they gave up the perimeter but were able to keep them from driving the play into the scoring areas, and Calgary had more time to transition to the break out when they won the puck battle against a lesser offensive and forechecking foe.
Against Dallas they set up the same way but then get run over for long shifts, get exhausted and eventually break down.
Agree on Dallas domination, but the game plan is the same with very different results.
The Jets were 53% CF% in the series against Calgary and middle of the pack of the 24 teams for shot attempts for per 60. But near the bottom in xGF and HDCF/60 because they couldn't penetrate the bubble and get shots from the inside.