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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Disagree here. An in close shot into shinpads of a defender with lots of time to set up is quite different from a cross ice pass even from further out. This is a micro stat that naturalstattrick doesn't have that others do and leads to predictable results. Flames were 31st in cross ice passes. It might be reading tea leaves here, but that's what Johnny and Tkachuk excelled at, and I'm not sure Sutter loves that idea
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He doesn't.
There was a point he took Tkachuk off the top line and put in Toffoli. He was making a lot of cross ice no look swing passes across ice from the defensive blue line.