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Originally Posted by GioforPM
And what goals are let in. Smith’s and often Hiller’s softies were just killer goals. I liked Talbot this year but he picked a bad game to be mediocre and Rittich picked the same game to suck badly.
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Or maybe the Flames should have played better in the 5 games that Talbot played great in.
The players left Talbot with zero margin for error. He was due for a bad game, even Markstrom had a few bad games during these playoffs. Lehner has had a few bad ones. Demko would have had some if he played more. No goalie can run the table of a Stanley Cup playoff and not have a few bad games.
Flames got bad goaltending in a game 6, no disputing that, but Goaltending was not the problem with this team this year, it was a strength. The weakness of this team is as follows:
1) only average coaching;
2) only average centremen;
3) lacking in quality top 6 forwards with size.
4) lacking in a game breaking defensemen.
They can fix number 1 right now. 2 is probably the hardest thing for them to fix. Adding Hall would address 3. As for 4, maybe giving the kids on the back end a little more freedom and confidence would help, Kylington has game breaking and offensive ability but the kid never saw any power play time, they tried to turn him into a pk guy for crying out loud, square peg round hole coaching right there. Then they went out and spent draft picks on a UFA who makes just as many turnovers as Kylington. Maybe if they tried Kylington out on the PP and played him to his strengths and let him develop some confidence, they wouldn’t have had to spend assets to acquire another version of him.