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Originally Posted by Elkyiv
If this is indeed the case, how is it that no one in the organization saw this coming?! OR let's say the scouts did warn Treliving about this possibility, how is it that no one told Treliving to wait and see how he does in thi system before giving him that contract?
I cannot imagine them simply looking at the point totals and making the trade.
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Really it's tough to say how well he'd fit until he's here I think.
You watch him in Florida and he looks elite. Then you have the public pressure that "you need to sign these guys for the deal to be good for Calgary, you can't lose them as UFA" and really you don't want to risk him walking for nothing too.
Couple things I do notice when watching this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOKqL8PvFcg
-The little passing plays into the slot that work for him in Florida just aren't working here.
-The Flames really should be studying the Panthers PP last year and trying to set it up the same way.
-His skating is much quicker and smoother...do wonder if he has been fighting the lower body injury he missed games with all year.
And to me this is the big one:
-The Panthers forwards off the puck (often the center) do a way better job of driving directly to the net on the zone entry. This opens space for Huberdeau. This doesn't happen in Calgary, the off the puck wingers go to the boards to try to recover the dump in, nobody drives the center of the ice and nobody tries to make a play to enter the zone with possession in the middle of the ice. Everything is low risk and against the walls.
(This leads to the odd man rushes against when the defense make a bad play...all forwards are caught below the circles trying to dig out the puck and if a dman makes a poor read it's off to the races the other way, and we don't have the fastest group).