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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
For the life of me, I can't understand how this is not a core part of our powerplay. It's not like we don't have a world-class distributor to get him the puck.
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You have to have establish credible threats elsewhere on the PP in order to make the bumper guy dangerous, otherwise there’s always going to be a guy or a stick in the way.
Lindholm last year was pretty dangerous on the PP regardless if he was on the flank or in the slot. Gaudreau would either find him open with a cross seam pass or Tkachuk would one touch it to him in the slot.
But I don’t think this team has the personnel to make it happen. Why is the Oiler’s PP so good? Because of McDavid and Draisaitl. They just traded away their PP1 quarterback and their PP didn’t skip a beat. The Flames do not have these types of players who can create the same kind of deception, or draw defenders to one side, or make the quick decisions needed to force the opposition out of their structure.
All these things like the powerplay, 3 on 3 overtime, odd man rushes and etc, the Flames suck at all these things because of their lack of game breaking talent and skill. They have the same set up and strategies as every other team, they just simply cannot execute at the same level.