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Originally Posted by Infinit47
He's very wrong with that as an assessment of last night's game though. The heat map shows the Flames generated tons of shots from prime scoring areas.
There are nights where the Flames generate lots of shots and are not dangerous. last night was not one of those nights.
Also, with even semi competent reffing the Flames would have had another two PP's, from which they likely would have had even more scoring chances. They did what they did 5v5.
Woodcraft didn't want to say his team was lucky to win. Whether that's because their wonder twins ego's are fragile or the Oilers organization has some sort of broken group think where he actually believes they were good, we will never know.
Flames outplayed the Oilers from top to bottom. Luck, posts and biased officiated got the Oilers a W.
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Yes, I'm not sure what game people were watching to say the flames only created perimeter shots. High dangers were 16-6.
Woody's narrative spinning is telling. He is not comfortable enough to be honest with his leadership group who were frankly terrible. He could have simply highlighted a positive if that's what he thinks his group needs (it doesn't) by saying that his team did a great job of getting in shooting lanes (they did). But the need to sugar coat their performance does not bode well for him or that team in the long term.
I was ever so slightly concerned that drai and McD might grow as leaders and players from the last coach fired, which is completely on them. But they are still as singularly focused as ever. No one in that org has ever been honest with them or tried to develop them into winners. They just assume it will happen free of any criticism whatsoever. Looking forward to them signing massive deals and losing together forever in grease.