So is your entire second paragraph. Is anyone who posts here in the room?
It's common sense for anyone who has played. You don't need to be in the room.
When you have no confidence in your goalie you're scared to take chances because you don't want to give up an odd man rush so you try and be more defensively minded and make the safe play.
The Flames didn't play like a team who were scared to take chances. The way Gaudreau talked after suggests they were too cocky and figured it was going to be easy after the first game.
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It's common sense for anyone who has played. You don't need to be in the room.
When you have no confidence in your goalie you're scared to take chances because you don't want to give up an odd man rush so you try and be more defensively minded and make the safe play.
The Flames didn't play like a team who were scared to take chances. The way Gaudreau talked after suggests they were too cocky and figured it was going to be easy after the first game.
Yep. This is why the Flames offense always died when McElhinney was in net, but they didn't have issues scoring when Kiprsuoff was in. I remember some fans felt sorry for McElhinney because the team in front of him couldn't score, but they always played differently when he was in net.
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It's common sense for anyone who has played. You don't need to be in the room.
When you have no confidence in your goalie you're scared to take chances because you don't want to give up an odd man rush so you try and be more defensively minded and make the safe play.
The Flames didn't play like a team who were scared to take chances. The way Gaudreau talked after suggests they were too cocky and figured it was going to be easy after the first game.
They did in game 3 and 4 for sure IMO.
D-men stopped activating, and third forward was staying up higher in the offensive zone because they were worried about getting burned on the odd man rush.
Because in games 1 and 2 they gave up a lot off the rush and pretty much every chance against ended up in the back of the net.
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Get out of here with garbage statements like this. Telling people who have different opinions that they never played is dumb when you honestly don't have a clue.
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Get out of here with garbage statements like this. Telling people who have different opinions that they never played is dumb when you honestly don't have a clue.
I never said you didn't play the game. I'm speaking in general.
I'm surprised how many of those are either he wins a board battle springing someone or he is skating it into the zone and setting up another player. Hope he can find that chemistry with the Flames players.
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Nice little article on Huby: when he found out about the trade, why he signed in Calgary, and why he picked #10:
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Huberdeau knows little about Calgary as a city aside from brief impressions from road trips and the positive feedback he’s heard from other Flames. Yet he was willing to commit to the franchise after that dinner with Treliving, signing a max-term extension at eight years and a $10.5 million AAV. It kicks in starting in 2023-24 and will pay him through his 38th birthday. How does a player go all-in on a market for that long without knowing what it’ll actually be like to live there? Isn’t that a little risky?
Huberdeau doesn’t see it that way.
“I was like, ‘You know what?’ I didn’t want to go to Calgary and be like, ‘Am I gonna stay there?’ ” he said. “At the end of the day, anywhere I would’ve went, it would’ve been different than in Florida, so I’d rather just go to Calgary and know I’m going to be there for a lot of years and know that’s going to be the next spot for the rest of my career. So that was my mindset. I was excited we got the deal done.”
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He’ll rent a house there for now and will do more research before deciding on a neigborhood to buy in. So the Flames have their new franchise player in Huberdeau, the NHL’s fourth-leading scorer over the past four seasons combined, who turned 29 in June and should remain one of most impactful offensive players in the game. But he’ll have some adjustments to make, no doubt, ranging from superficial to significant. For the first time in his pro career, he won’t wear No. 11. That belongs to center Mikael Backlund in Calgary. Instead, Huberdeau will wear No. 10. He chose those digits to pay tribute to one of his heroes, the late legend Guy Lafleur.
