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Originally Posted by SeanCharles
This has been a problem with Flames fans mentality for years..
You can't bring in a certain player and expect him to completely change his game, after playing a certain way basically his whole career, and maintain the same level of success.
We need to play players to their strengths if we expect them to contribute at the same levels they have prior.
I can understand getting an offensive player to play in a checking role to build his overall game but expecting him to contribute at the same level isn't overly fair to the player.
Same goes with expecting Huberdeau to play primarily a dump and chase, cycle the puck down low game and expect the same results he got when his line would carry the puck in and make quick plays off the rush.
Maybe if we had a player to play him with that was elite at making plays off the boards - like Tkachuk has shown in the past - he could have stronger offensive numbers.
The puzzling part about it all is Conroy said they wanted to play a more modern offensive system but the results have not been there as of yet.
They are more boring to watch than ever before. They have no identity and can't get anything going at 5v5 or on the PP.
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100% this. Where is the "give guys freedom to be creative on offense" that was talked about? Even in Huska's post game, he talked about getting the puck behind the other team and acknowledging it as boring hockey and it works. Well, we've pretty much been doing it all season and it hasn't worked.