Great Game Markstrom!
But how about a little nuance people on the what's wrong with this year's Flames team.
It is very possible that the players have been working hard but not getting results due to bad systems. They don't have to have quit on the coach in order to come to the conclusion that the coaching has sucked. And you don't have to have just one cause for this team's failures.
We have a lot of high-character guys on this team and I would not be at all surprised that they are holding it together in terms of not giving-up. Could the crap season just be blamed on bad puck luck? Sure, some, but not over 60 plus games. Is it bad goaltending? Yes, that too. And could it also be a bad coach with an outdated strategy, crappy line combos, bad game management, nonsensical favorites etc. Yes. All of these things can be true. IMO, they all are.
But I really don't buy the bad puck luck is the primary problem argument. That's a symptom of other issues not a cause of this year's underachieving team.
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