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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The two bolded points contradict each other.
They aren't slow, they play slow. But I am confident that Sutter will fix that.
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First of all, being slow is a relative term. To me, this is a slow team. They have a couple of the slowest players in the league on their team ala Lucic and Tkachuk. They compensate by playing heavy so it works. Tkachuk can also the slow the pace of a game down though similar to Johnny (opposite ways of course). But overall, no, I don’t consider this a fast team.
Also, I disagree that this team “plays slow,” at least by design. They want to play fast, they want to play with pace as constantly echoed by Bill Peters in the past. When this team plays “connected” they can be fast, they can transition from zone to zone quickly because the puck moves faster then humans. But it’s what the opposition does to the Flames that makes them appear slow. Nobody wants to play slow. What self respecting NHL hockey player would want to purposely be slow? Your shift is 1 minute long. There’s no time to be slow. But unfortunately, the other team wants to win too and sometimes you have to slow things down because of how the other team plays you.