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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Depth.
The team has three lines that can score, but nothing you could describe as a bona fide first line.
It also doesn't help that the team's current best goal scorer, Coleman, has heavy defensive responsibilities at even strength and also plays the PK. He's 9th among forwards still on the team in PP time.
There's a very good reason why you seldom see teams ‘blast away’ from the point anymore. Those shots are far too easy for a goalie to see, and if he can see them, he can stop them.
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So better to not even get a shot on goal than try to get shots through from the point? Teams collapse and allow the Flames to fiddle along the boards and blue line because we never keep them honest and fire pucks into traffic.
Regardless of whether it is yhe best way to run a PP, we are 65 games in and Savard's plan sucks. What is the harm in trying something different.