I just wanted us to look different. We looked like the same old Flames. I could have written the script for that whole game after Dube got cranked, Hamimic got beat up and the Canucks scored first.
Yep, I'm feeling the same way. I was wondering all game with the way the lines were set up (3M line, Brodie on PP) if Glen Gulutzan was actually fired in April or if that was a ruse...
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I guess I'll have to chalk it up to being a stinker. There were not many bright spots. The team is better than this, but I hope we don't spend months waiting for them to sort it out again.
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Honest question, can he even hit the net...3 seasons in a row where every shot is "Wide by Giordano"
Maddening.
His shot accuracy seems to be the one part of his game that's really dropped off. The guy is trying to hard to make the perfect shot. Just hit the net and good things will happen.
I don’t think it’s the same old Flames. Yes, they need to fix the power play. The lines needed some adjusting.
I think we see Neal up with Johnny and Monahan on a regular basis because it looked pretty good when it happened tonight.
That moves Lindholm down with Chucky and Backs, which I don’t think is a bad thing at all. Czar with Ryan and Dube and Fro with Sam and Janko.
Not bad, the top 2 lines can get rolling and bottom 2 can hold their own.
Smith wasn’t the problem tonight, the crappy defence was the problem. Fix that and the PP and things will be fine. No way we see. 5-2 loss again on Saturday. They will fix this.
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- The skaters all looked like the Ghost of Glen Gulutzan was still haunting them
- Smith was solid, but he needs to get that fourth goal.
- That power play. Absolutely embarassing. At this point maybe it's time to completely change the units around. Like, completely completely. Like, Monahan-Neal-Lindholm-Brodie-Giordano and Gaudreau-Tkachuk-Backlund-Czarnik-Hanifin.
- Czarnik looks like a good signing. Seems to be more comfortable at the half-wall than Lindholm, who might have too much skill overlap with Tkachuk to be playing on the same unit.
- Valimaki - Stone were absolutely awful. I really hope that's not what we can look forward to this year, because at the very least I was comfortable with Kulak's consistent and solid play last year and was looking forward to Andersson unseating Stone.
- Jankowski and Frolik were also awful.
- Bennett's career is over. The flashy instincts have been successfully coached out of him and we're left with a cookie cutter fourth liner. Sorry, but he was one of our best zone entry guys in his rookie year and the need to get guys dumping pucks and making "the right play" is how you ruin a player. I also don't see him ever working as a left winger, his game is just not suited to the wing no matter how physical he is. We need him dicing through bodies with his dynamic skill and speed. Having him play wings just makes him stationary on the breakout, especially since he doesn't like to leak out like a typical winger.
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I really worry about the IQ part of the equation. Coaching staff may be able to eventually instill *some* urgency, but hockey smarts?
This has been my fear for years: that the core group of this team just does not have the hockey IQ required to adapt and, with the exception of a few players, actually get to the next level of their game,. Lots of tools, no toolbox. Always have wondered if this is the case.
I’m as bad as an Oliers fan. Pumped up all offseason and then the season usually follows the same script. Lose game one. Play 81 more games at a mediocre level. Probably miss the playoffs. I fall for the preseason bullspit every year.
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