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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
It's just so apparent when watching other games just how bad the Flames are at clearing their own zone, speed through the neutral zone and offensive zone entry.
And it's been that way for some time.
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Indeed. There appears to be a lot of emphasis on the flames ensuring possession with the puck out of their own zone...and it is really costing them, turnovers after turnovers. This is absolutely a practiced, detailed coaching strategy for sure that has been implemented, and it is clearly not working. I can recall watching the majority of the flames fail at clearing the puck out or properly and safely chipping out the puck when it is desperate, safe and necessary. It’s like they moved the needle and exercising a set play where it’s a possession first option. So many 3 and 4 foot passes to a teammate that gets gobbled up and turned over... none of them are exercising the safe play when desperate and they have lots of time and space to do it. Half the Canucks shots and chances were from these turnovers. This has to be fixed...it’s a technical coaching issue that is falling flat on its face.