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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Sarich made a really good point during today's intermission about forward backpressure allowing the defensemen to play much tighter gaps under Sutter.
That's a sound description of championship hockey, whatever system you want to call it.
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This is what I've been trying to get at for weeks. The Flames structurally, have been too aggressive on the forecheck which has hurt their ability to apply enough back pressure in the neutral zone which has made them vulnerable to counter attacks in transition. They were playing with zero passion and an inconsistent effort every night which exacerbated things, but now that they're trying and playing with 100% buy in, their forecheck is considerably more effective again which was supposed to be this team's primary objective from the start of the season, "check for your chances."
Alas, it took another head coach dismissal for them to figure it out, but I guess this group is pretty use to that by now.