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Originally Posted by VilleN
What opportunity hasn't he got? They've tried him pretty much everywhere. At this point I'd say it is confidence probably brought on by the Flames style of play not suiting his style. Great players adapt. Tkachuk handled the transition just fine. If you need absolutely perfect circumstances to be useful, you are not worth 10.5M. I hope he figures it out, because he is obviously very talented... but with every game I am getting less optimistic.
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Well you could try the guy on an extended period of time with Lindholm and Sharangovich instead of doing the Darryl Sutter special and give him only a few games before breaking out the blender. Or here is a really crazy idea, you could have more than one line playing East West hockey that actually throws pucks from down low into the slot. The only reason line 2 plays that way is because Zary and Pospisil are new additions and Kadri never cared to listen to the coach (Sutter) who implemented the whole dump it back to the point whenever you gain the zone for a long distance bomb. Imagine being an assistant coach and watching your head coach absolutely neuter an elite passers game by taking away what made him successful by telling him to feed pucks to the point instead of cross crease and then doing the exact same stupid thing. Put Huberdeau on a top line in Vegas or even Montreal where they drive possession down the boards and throw pucks cross crease with guys going to high danger areas and he would be top 10 in scoring right now. Instead all the offence gets neutured except for line 2 which seems to have gone the way of line 1 from two years ago where they did it there way. Give it time though, Huska will suck the offence out of Zary too given time.