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Originally Posted by 868904
He gives the puck away all the time even in the regular season. He handles it a lot. I really think he's been fine. The other two have not helped. If Hudler is hurt, he shouldn't be playing, because he's been very ineffective. Throughout the year, I've thought that Johnny needs Hudler to be effective, but in this series, Johnny has been creating despite Hudler. I think it's time to try Johnny with others, I think he has developed enough to be the catalyst himself.
I want to see Ferland up on that line with them. I know he's a LW too, but he's been a serious physical presence and has been the Flames best forward. He gets into the slot or follows Johnny around, he'll get a prime scoring chance.
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i agree with this... Johnny seems to be pretty good still, the problem is Hudler and Mony have been off... johnny created a beautiful give and go with hudler, from the slot to the corner where hudler was, and was expecting a return pass, but Huds flat out mishandled it...
seems like Johnny has been creating, but others have been fumbling it...not to say JH has been perfect, but i think that he's trying too hard to do it himself because the other guys aren't stepping up. Not he's trying to cut it too fine...
switching johnny to be with a guy like ferland or bouma with maybe a bennett or backlund would a least break up the scoring to two lines a little more...
