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Originally Posted by dino7c
You can worry if you want...Flames lost 3 on goal games that could have gone either way and are the best team in the NHL since the ASB. Did you expect them to win every game
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The worry is not from the fact that they lost 3 games.
The worry is from the mental mistakes we've been seeing from these guys lately, mistakes that they haven't been making for most of the year. They look like they're getting tired and wearing down. I use '18-'19 as a comparable because the team looked unstoppable for the first half to 2/3s of the season, then fizzled down the stretch and looked outclassed by Colorado from game 2 onward. Another comparable is 2006, where the team clearly ran out of gas in the final 2 games of that series vs Anaheim.
Darryl is a superb coach, probably the greatest of all time when it comes to getting the most out of his players. But he's got to realize that his players are not cyborgs or robots, they're humans. Now that Monahan is on LTIR, and roster limits are gone, maybe it's time to call up some guys from Stockton and give some games off to key players on this team. Lindy, for example, has looked nothing like his usual self in recent games. Eatbread has really cooled off and hasn't looked threatening lately. Chucky also seems to be fighting it out there from time to time. Toffoli looked lost out there on the goahead goal tonight. Not Hanafin's best night either.
I do also worry that fatigue is setting in for Marky, and his level of play is slipping as a result. Hopefully we see Vladar get a decent number of starts in April.