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Originally Posted by 868904
It was pretty stupid to have Coronato playing centre between Walker and Greer last game. That line got caved in. Were caught out against the Stars top line twice and were lucky they didn't get scored on. Huska benched them after that, but it really wasn't the players fault there. Why did he put a rookie winger at centre between two AHL/NHL tweeners? What did he expect was going to happen? Of course DeBoer was going to try and take advantage of that situation.
He could have easily had Sharagovich centre that line, which has been effective, and had Coronato with Kadri and Zary.
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They were hemmed in for extended periods twice in the second period with Oesterle and Gilbert on the ice. Once, I understand as maybe it was just how the flow of the game went for the lines, but it's on the coaches for allowing it to happen again just a few minutes later.
Anyways, these lines are pretty good. Hopefully the Kadri line sustains their play as they were awesome against Dallas. The Lindholm line is at least outchancing and outscoring opponents, even if it doesn't feel like it's working. I prefer Dube at C, so hopefully this time it sticks for a while and he is able to help that group get back to the strong play in the first few games.
I was listening to Flames talk discuss sending Coronato down and they made a pretty decent case for it. I'd love to see him get back to scoring and playing top line minutes. I was also thinking that it would be good for him to have some familiarity with the players and staff of the Wranglers in case he ends up going down for a Calder Cup chase at the end of the season.