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Originally Posted by foshizzle11
Here is what I would like to see:
Tkachuk - Bennett - Dube (balanced line, starts in D and O equally)
Gaudreau - Monahan - Mangiapane (possession line, more offensive zone starts)
Leivo - Backlund - Lindholm (shutdown line, most defensive zone starts)
Lucic - Ryan - Nordstrom (crash and bang line)
Why not really mix it up in the top 9?
Monahan and Gaudreau look disinterested still, such stupid mistakes last night. They didn't look elite. It was game one of a weird season, so I'll give them a few weeks to get going but I feel like nothing has changed since last year.
First thing I said to my friends after the 1st period was that if they can play like that for 60 minutes then we can win the division. But guess what? Straight back to boneheaded plays (Lucic on Scheifele goal to start it off), lack of energy, no hustle on pucks, no urgency, sitting back. The new guys played the best, showing they have something to prove or need to earn it.
Anyway, I'll hold off on jumping to hard on these guys for the first month but it looked like a normal Flames game of the last two seasons.
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Shocking that when you don’t change major parts of the team that don’t work, you don’t see a lot of change in outcome.
But hey, maybe the Flames have this all figured out and the answers are somewhere in the room.