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Originally Posted by CGY12
Its super apparent to me that the team is too slow. In todays era of hockey, regardless of standings, position, rank, if your team is slow, you got big problems and its why the Flames have sucked against these bad teams. They have youth and speed which gives the Flames trouble.
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Speed has been the undoing of this team for what seems like a few years. There's a reason they looked so out of sorts against the Oilers. For some reason, speed completely undoes their structure.
I'm all for having different looks on the roster, which could include heavy 4th liners who aren't as fleet-afoot, but you'd better have the counterpunch to be able to play the speed game as well.
We haven't had that to the same level the league has evolved, and it's exposed us.