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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
I completely disagree, I think Gio helps this team tremendously especially in the regular season. I don’t the Flames are even a playoff team without him. He won the Norris last season for crying out loud and it resulted in a 50 win season.
Here’s what I will say about his struggles though. Gio’s greatest strength is his work ethic which is second to none. In the regular season, his work, is his advantage. But in the playoffs, everyone works as hard as Gio does, so his advantage in my opinion is gone. He’s also undersized for his position and his skating ability is only average, so against quicker or heavier teams, he’ll struggle.
But does that mean you need to rid yourself of him? No, I just think Treliving needs to insulate him with more help. Bumping him down to the second pair would be the best move here. I think Gio can still help you win, his leadership and his work is exemplary. The worst thing Treliving can do is rid himself of guys who can help you get to the playoffs with playoff only guys and then this team misses the playoffs completely. That’s a very realistic possibility and Treliving has to avoid that at all costs.
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1) The Flames are not a playoff team. There has been 1 year of the 11 that Gio has been in the core that the Flames were a playoff team.
The other times they were a bubble team that were a coin toss to make the playoffs.
Hard to remember that far back but after the 2004 run and the 2005 lock out the Flames were a playoff team. They were not worried about the wild card spots. That what was expected after 2018-19 and it ended with them being .001 winning pct margin for being in 8th place when the season ended.
2) First time ever I heard the Gio is not an excellent skater.
3) So if a team is quick or a team is heavy then Gio is over matched??? If only there were playoff teams that were slow and small.