I miss Gaudreau, the player not the person. He made games fun to watch, creates stuff out of nothing, he can actually hold onto the puck and make plays. Right now, the team is so boring to watch. Sutter has tunnel vision, dead set on his lines...Lucic on the second line as a solution. Dead set on his D pairings. There would be at least a little excitement if he was willing to play the kids. But nope, 30 plus year old 4th liners all day long.
Then there's OT. He's dead set on those pairings too. Backlund/Hanafin/ Tanev....playing defensive so we don't get scored on in the first minute? Hasn't worked. Hub/Kadri are a disaster together for 3 on 3, guaranteed Huby passes to no one and a 2-1 goes the other way and scores. We also have no one that can score in a shootout cept Huberdeau, Anderson has the exact same move. The amount of dumb penalties we take. The amount Sutter starts Markstrom instead of Vladar, when cleary Vladar was better at the time.
For the last 10 years, I've planned my schedule around Flames games so I can watch every game. Tonight, I purposely planned something so I didn't have to watch the game. Huberdeau has been the biggest excitement in the offseason, and biggest disappointment for me so far in season.
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