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Originally Posted by dissentowner
First, I think the lack of talent argument is weak and false. It's an excuse to stick up for Huska because he is such a nice guy. Huberdeau, Kadri, Sharangovich, Coronato, Coleman even have all the ability to hit 30 goals. Well Coronato has not but if the system was geared more towards the roster makeup he would. This is a skill group of forwards, funneling everything back to the point would be great if the team was a bunch of Adam Klapka's standing in front of the net. Instead you neuter player creativity for guys like Huby, Zary, Frost, etc... Huska's system is close to Sutter's except Sutter had everyone shooting from the perimeter to get mass shot volume. It didn't work for the roster he had and the only exception was the top line of Gaudreau/Lindholm/Tkachuk that got called out by the coach for being more interested in padding their stats then playing his system. Huska's system is even worse for this because everything gets funneled back to the point rather than shoot from anywhere which at least gives you a snowballs chance in hell of scoring. Combine that with nobody screening the goalie and it's a recipe for a great lack of scoring. Under the Sutter/Huska types of offensive zone system Huberdeau went from an 80-115 consistent player to 50-60. You made one of the most talented passers in the game into a two way 2nd line grinder because he was talented enough to change his game to fit the system. The system doesn't work for this roster, it just doesn't. If we had a large strong forward on each line that went directly to screening the goalie it would work. We don't have that.
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I think you'd be strongly in the minority on both a CP poll and a national poll on those thoughts.
Calgary has a 2nd line, two 3rd lines, and two 4th lines ... three top four defenseman of which two have transition skills and an elite goaltender.