Post-Game Talk: Flames def. Canucks - 4-1(Gadjovich)

[Nona Di Giuseppe]

Team has no defensively capable anything BECAUSE of the coaching. Defense takes buying into a plan, and working hard. No one seems to know what the plan is. A fairly talented roster not on the same page. Not that upgrades aren't needed, but I swear Green and Bummer would miss the playoffs coaching Tampa somehow.

it’s probably a bit of both but who does this team currently have that is the realm of Kesler, Hansen, prime Malholtra? *any* defensively responsible forwards?

Sutter is god awful and not (and I wish we went after Stall instead)

Edit: Dickinson is a start

 

[Hit the post]

it’s probably a bit of both but who does this team currently have that is the realm of Kesler, Hansen, prime Malholtra? *any* defensively responsible forwards?

Sutter is god awful and not (and I wish we went after Stall instead)

Edit: Dickinson is a start

Sutter was once respectible in that (even as a Canuck). But he's not remotely that player anymore.

As to blaming the coaching from that other poster....Clark could have had a million years with Red Light Holtby. You can't undo the effects of time on an athlete.

 

[VanJack]

Green called out his team after the Flames loss....says they just weren't very good...looked to me like they couldn't complete a six-foot pass all night long.

Of course with half the Canucks team comprised of bubble guys or outright AHL players, I'm not sure what you could expect. Podkozlin had a pretty invisible night. It'll be interesting to see if Green sticks with that Miller-Garland-Podkolzin line. Green seems to be giving them a lot of rope in pre-season, but they need to start putting up some points.