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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
I really don’t like this “inconsistent” stuff simply because a player is young. It’s total BS.
You know who else has been “inconsistent” this year?
-COLEMAN 
- Lewis
- Lucic
- Backlund
- Kadri
- Huberdeau
- Stone
- Dube
- Mangiapane
- everyone but Toffoli and Andersson? |
You're looking at different types of consistency in terms of a 200ft game and checking compared to simply putting the puck in the net and scoring consistency here. The above players, for the most part are not having the gameplay issues that a youngster like Ruzicka can and has fallen into.
Sutter has to take a lot of credit for what he's done with Dube, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt with Ruzicka here. However, when the Flames are losing more 1 goal games than they are winning, you do expect this little experiment to come to an end sooner than later.
Lucic is certainly not doing nearly enough to warrant this prolonged stretch on a scoring line where it is not merely good enough to just be there and check. I would suspect that the team's overall scoring would improve noticeably if this change was made back to Ruzicka as all 3 players would benefit from more speed and skill on that line.