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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The other elephant in the room is the coach. Darryl was a great coach in his time but is anyone else watching games from the other divisions? It's so much faster and more exciting than the hockey we have seen from the locals. The Flames play so slow and trying to win games 2-1 goes against the grain of the rest of the league. I'm just not saying Darryl can't coach a winner but the margin for error is so small when you can't score goals and have to rely on slowing down opposition. Once they get down by a goal you can pretty well turn out the lights. I just don't see things getting better as it looks like the team is going to be a basement dweller for some time.
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I am honestly not concerned at all about Sutter right now. The guy’s resume speaks for itself. The personnel is a huge problem as this team is not built to be a grinding team and they are not skilled enough to hang with the top teams. I think that is the issue. The Flames thought that Gaudreau, Monahan, Tkachuk, Lindholm were a core group you could build a contender around. Basically once Lindholm joined the team it gave them 4 high end forwards. The fact that Monahan has regressed to the point he is not even a decent second line center or the fact Tkachuk has seemingly completely lost his way factors into this team being poor.
Markstrom really struggling post injury has cost this team as many or more points than the team not scoring has. Darryl has also been crystal clear this team is not talented enough to do what they did 2 years ago and score goals at will