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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Thing is, it’s not about speed or ability. Some just aren’t doing it. It doesn’t require speed necessarily. Lucic plays with pace a fair bit. He gets the puck, moves the puck, he skates hard and pressure the puck, he hits before the D can make a move. And he’s slow. The littler guys should be all over the opposition, harassing them. Mangiapane does, Dube does most of the time. Ryan does it. Backlund sometimes does and when he does he’s good at it. Gaudreau I wish would rev it up more.
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Good point. Pace is more so about positioning and being part of the play, rather than simply being a fast skater. The team overall plays fairly lethargic. I feel like the team in the first game with Sutter behind the pace played with pace. They didn't #### around at all with the puck, and moved it up the ice quickly. As a result, they dominated the play all game long.
That level of puck control domination is not sustainable game to game because the opposing team will be able to play well themselves, and it'll balance out the flow of the game as a result. But Flames overall could play closer to that, rather than the way they've played for the past couple of seasons in having fairly slow decision making and trapping themselves into losing the puck and giving it to the opposing team. Don't need to exclusively have fast players to pull that off. Just need players that think faster, and position themselves to be where the play is going.