Really disappointing effort last night.
Phillips, Ruzicka, and Pospisil did nothing whatsoever to help their cause. One decent offensive rush in the game versus many shifts pinned in their zone. Unfortunate because that was a wide open opportunity to turn a game around and get noticed.
Zadorov and Gudbranson were pretty mediocre. I don't think Zadorov was playing with full intensity, similar to Backlund so I'm not worried. Gudbranson looked bad though... that signing remains indefensible.
Mackey, Valimaki, and Andersson weren't great either. Rasmus carried it a few times but mostly they all just got dominated throughout.
Welinski was atrocious with the puck. Multiple unforced icings and giveaways.
Richardson and Lewis didn't look very effective. Ryan played way better than either of them.
Pelletier looked fine but wasn't able to generate anything on his own. Don't think he's threatening for a spot out of camp, which is fine. AHL time will be good for him.
Goalies were really good. Flames vets weren't engaged enough and were taking penalties all night.
Not worth getting worked up over but it was an awful showing. Decided not to go to the dome yesterday and happy I held off. Hopefully tonight gets them on the right track.
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