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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
The team may state the PP didn't get the job done (which it didn't) but there needs to be a less predictable offense ie more D activation. Especially early in games.
I don't understand why the d corps offensive numbers decline so much when it should be a strength.
I can understand when people are upset at lax d zone coverage but there's gotta be way to thread that needle. If you have trouble with your forwards scoring you need the d to jump up and give that extra layer.
This offense has a lot of point shots into traffic about it. Just a lack of dynamism that makes it difficult to come back or stretch a lead. Very pedestrian.
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I really think that the flames coaching staff believe all this 'top 5 d in the league' bs. This d is not made up of strong defensive players.
Giordano - best 2 way dman on the team
Hamilton - offensive dman, ok defensively
Hamonic - defensive dman, who's actually pretty avg even at that
Brodie - tremendous transition d. Terrible defensively, brutal at the point, like laughably bad.
Stone - solid bottom pairing defensive dman
Kulak - another good transition dman.
The coaching staff flat out don't understand the strengths of the roster. Quick transition, leveraging the puck moving dmen we have.
Smith doesn't help. The dmen just stopping on the corners doesn't create good, fast transition, in my opinion.
