First off it's hard to fault Huska given his team is in a playoff spot in March.
Nobody saw that coming (very few).
Defensively there is little debate given the roster construction (coming into the season with only 2 top four defensemen).
Offensively the team is last place in goals per game in a 32 team league, so yeah I think there is likely something in the sacrifice to get into the top half defensively that is hurting this team offensively. He needs some blame.
They don't have a lot of offensively dynamic players though, can't ignore that.
Comes down to the trade off. If he tweaked the system to open up and the Flames scored say 1/3 goal more per game moving the team offensively from 32nd to 20th ... what happens in their own zone, and does that change result in greater than 1/3 goal per game against.
Guessing he thinks yes.
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