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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Not even close to the same thing.
Those teams had great underlying numbers and generally dictated play and drove possession.
Difference is they had the 25th best shooting percentage and 25th best save percentage in the league.
This team is different. They don’t dictate play. They are passive and collapse in their own zone. And their underlying stats have cratered in comparison to under Gulutzan and Peters iterations of the Flames.
Only thing keeping them afloat is Ward is getting decent shooting percentage (8.31% - 13th) and amazing goaltending (.926 - 6th) but his system is having them play way worse everywhere else on the ice.
In fact on the nights where Ward doesn’t get good goaltending the result often looks like tonight.
And that’s the biggest problem. These aren’t the same problems we’ve seen before, this team is playing worse than it has under any of the previous coaches. That’s why I think Ward and his systems are the biggest issue right now.
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This is what it comes down to for me. This team looks worse under Ward than under Gulutzan.
It's like how Trump made us fondly remember George W Bush. When Bush was happening it felt terrible, but then Trump came along and Bush didn't seem too bad by comparison.
I didn't think anyone could make me miss Gulutzan hockey, but enter Geoff Ward and here we are.