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Originally Posted by ComixZone
So, who on this team can actually carry the puck?
10 games in and the only player who wants the puck and is trying to make plays is Nazem Kadri.
Everyone else won't hold onto it. Can't make a pass. Can't skate with the puck. They dump it in entirely too much and their recovery attempts are pathetic. This team needs to get through the neutral zone with speed so they have a chance to enter the zone with the puck, rather than limp-wristing it into the corner never to be seen again.
Also, Lindholm is an absolute ghost this year.
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Other people have said this, but if the current flu bug has hit the Flames' dressing room, that would explain a lot. If those players are half as sick as my wife and I are right now, it's a wonder they can skate at all.
Something clearly changed after the 5-1 start. These guys didn't just forget how to hockey from one day to the next. But a couple of weeks of flu would neatly fit the timeline of these recent losses.