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Originally Posted by Bingo
The Flames are 8th for homeplate shots this season.
This isn't a perimeter issue.
They're 18th in home plate danger though, so they're not getting the home plate shots with an event to get the goalie moving.
That could be coaching, but the Flames were 11th in home plate danger last year, so it wasn't being coached out.
So I think it's partly a different team with less players that either can or are willing to take the puck into the danger areas and create chaos.
I think it's two things ...
1) a roster that doesn't have the one on one skills to create the high danger events
2) a coach that puts shot volume number one, perhaps eliminating the possibility for the high danger too often in exchange for a shot count
That and the randomness of hockey makes me think you could bring back the entire roster and Sutter next year and be 2nd in the division.
But Sutter's stubbornness has worn thin with me. I feel he's coaching to stick it to someone at all times ... the fans? the GM? the ownership?
Getting old.
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The media? All of the above? Him against the world? Very keanan-esque at times. Again, if he's accountable to essentially nobody, it is a massive organizational disfunction. If you plan on moving forward with him as coach, which I think you should, get someone who he will fall in line to like Lombardi. Too bad it's not BT but it's becoming more and more evident that this was not a tre hire.