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Originally Posted by Infinit47
Maybe it's my perception bias. But it felt like he blew the lines up after the Oilers loss and kept them that way (while underperforming) for way too long. I feel like that is where we are now. These lines have been largely consistent for awhile, and outside of the Backlund line they look like trash.
Lots of coaches make line changes within the game to get players going. Sutter seems to be more a fan of making changes on a week to week or month to month timeline. I mean, our powerplay has been horrific, and the only reason it changed last night was because Anderson was hurt. We've known all season that our powerplay wasn't working, but until there is an injury we don't see major changes.
Another example of this was Sutter refusing to play Vladar last playoffs against the Oilers despite Markstrom being terrible, which is a theme that has carried over to this year as well (but is hopefully changing now).
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The Flames have 10 different forward lines with 50+ minutes on the season so he's tried other things.