Tortorella with big praise for Gulutzan

[Anduril]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

Disagree. They're special teams were awful last year as well, does everyone forget? And Elliott has looked just as bad as Hiller has. This is the same crappy team from last year.

They were bad last year but they aren't the catastrophe that they are right now.

For example, the lowest historical PP% is shared by the 98 Lightning and 01 Wild at 9.3% source
The Flames are currently 8.4% Obviously a small sample size still with a little less than 3/4th's of the season to go, but the Flames have never finished the season below 12.1% . Even last year's PP was a mediocre 17%.

You are correct in that the PK last year wasn't very good as it's not much different than it is now. 72.2% so far this season versus 75.5% last season, both lowest in franchise history.

Some shallow stats but I think this just continues to highlight how much of a black hole special team, powerplay especially has been for this team thus far this season. We can say "if we had league average", we'd be in a different place and that'd probably be true.
Problem is, this team doesn't even know how to be below league average with the man advantage.

[calgaryblood]

Originally Posted by Wiggum_PI

The PP this year is way worse then last season, it's in the single digits (8.4%).

It's not the end of the season yet. We can still improve.

[Wiggum_PI]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

It's not the end of the season yet. We can still improve.

I really hope the powerplay does improve (almost impossible to get any worse), but with Dave Cameron running it I doubt they get close to even the mediocre 17% of last season.

[bax]

Originally Posted by Anduril

They were bad last year but they aren't the catastrophe that they are right now.

For example, the lowest historical PP% is shared by the 98 Lightning and 01 Wild at 9.3% source
The Flames are currently 8.4% Obviously a small sample size still with a little less than 3/4th's of the season to go, but the Flames have never finished the season below 12.1% . Even last year's PP was a mediocre 17%.

You are correct in that the PK last year wasn't very good as it's not much different than it is now. 72.2% so far this season versus 75.5% last season, both lowest in franchise history.

Some shallow stats but I think this just continues to highlight how much of a black hole special team, powerplay especially has been for this team thus far this season. We can say "if we had league average", we'd be in a different place and that'd probably be true.
Problem is, this team doesn't even know how to be below league average with the man advantage.

That 17% should have an asterisk beside it too. The power play was terrible for the first half of the season and really only starting to improve after they were already out of the running

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by bax

That 17% should have an asterisk beside it too. The power play was terrible for the first half of the season and really only starting to improve after they were already out of the running

It only really started improving when Wideman was replaced with Hamilton.

[activeStick]

Are there any stats on number of shots blocked on the PP? I've noticed this year the team is a lot slower in getting shots off from the point on the PP which is a clear change from last year, which I'm assuming is a direct ask from the assistant to forego a point shot unless there is a lane. I wonder if the stats showed that the Flames were getting a lot of point shots blocked last year.

[Hockey Fan #751]

Originally Posted by MarkGio

They say Ed Wood was a head of his time, but during his tenure he made some of the biggest production flops in the history of cinemas.

I don't want someone ahead of their time. I want someone ahead in their time. And the fact that the Flames are one of the worst teams in the league is more telling than any praise Torts can provide.

Until I hear the same praise from Mike Babcock, Joel Quenneville, or Daryl Sutter, I couldn't care. Torts is one more bad season away from being an old memory in this league. It's like Treliving getting praise from Mike Millbury

It's more like Treliving getting praise from Jim Benning, since he's also one more bad season away from being an old memory in this league.