Hand of Gaudreau
Gaudreaubey Baker
so good. Real question is how long will the Flames be searching for that elusive 1st line RWinger to play with Money
1-2 seasons, think Poirier.
so good. Real question is how long will the Flames be searching for that elusive 1st line RWinger to play with Money
Tell me more about how this team was expected to make the playoffs.
That's the thing, would he have picked Monahan had the Flames picked a couple spots higher?
I think the Flames were looking at Elias Lindholm after Jonathan Drouin and Aleksander Barkov.
I believe the Flames were thinking that Nathan MacKinnon would still be available.
Playoff chances seem to be slipping away but it's becoming clear that this isn't a well managed team. But with Brian Burke here now one can remain optimistic.
-The handling of Baertschi
-The trade for Smid
Couple examples right there.
Playoff chances seem to be slipping away but it's becoming clear that this isn't a well managed team. But with Brian Burke here now one can remain optimistic.
-The handling of Baertschi
-The trade for Smid
Couple examples right there.
How is trading for Smid an example of poor team management? This should be gold.
Smid really has not been good for us.
I think the ultimate value is in our favour, but it looks like Smid was traded for a reason.
Smid really has not been good for us.
I think the ultimate value is in our favour, but it looks like Smid was traded for a reason.
Smid really has not been good for us.
I think the ultimate value is in our favour, but it looks like Smid was traded for a reason.
Smid really has not been good for us.
I think the ultimate value is in our favour, but it looks like Smid was traded for a reason.
He was. So they could sign Bryzgalov.
Smid has done what he was expected to. Block shots and play hard. Nothing more.
Personally I just wonder why we went after Smid when we could've called up someone from Abbotsford and we already have Butler on the team, who does the exact same stuff Smid does with more offense.
How is trading for Smid an example of poor team management? This should be gold.
Because you're assuming the Heat have someone that can do what Smid does, as well as Smid does it. He plays tough minutes, and plays hard against his opponents. He does what he does very, very well.
Ladislav Smid is okay, he's a 3rd pairing defenseman.
Joey Macdonald gone already this year and the couple from last season they probably should have kept Laurent Brossoit for that reason alone.
Will Berra and Ramo be the Flames goalies by the end of the season? I like them both but with the way the Flames have been going through goalies that remains to be seen.
Personally I would've rather had Breen stay in the lineup, and told him to hit everything he could every time he had a shift, but that's just me, I like a multi-faceted defense.
That would not be great coaching. Breen at this stage in his career is not better than Smid, and telling him to go out and just hit, instead of learning how to play defense is just poor coaching. I like your definition of multi-faceted though, a guy whose only job is to hit everything he can.
Ladislav Smid is okay, he's a 3rd pairing defenseman.
Joey Macdonald gone already this year and the couple from last season they probably should have kept Laurent Brossoit for that reason alone.
Will Berra and Ramo be the Flames goalies by the end of the season? I like them both but with the way the Flames have been going through goalies that remains to be seen.
So are you a machine with no personality at all, or just really autistic and can't pick up linguistic subtleties, or what? Clearly I would not tell him to literally go out and hit everything on the ice, but what I would do is tell him to provide a physical force, land hits, and use his size aggressively whenever possible. That's why he's in the organization, so let's start utilising that now, rather than later.
Furthermore, Smid plays defense pretty poorly anyways, all he does is block shots, so your post is flawed on multiple levels.
This is simply untrue.
This topic has gone hilariously off-topic.
Smid's on-ice Corsi is the second-worst amongst Flames with at least ten games. Furthermore, Smid has the third-easiest Quality of Competition amongst Flames defense, putting him right in the middle of the pack and eliminating excuses about hard minutes. Although Smid sees a positive increase in offensive zone starts vs. offensive zone finishes, this is probably attributed to his ability to simply dump the puck out, rather than his ability to make hard plays like Brodie does. Last, even without all of the stats, one can simply watch Smid play the game and see that he is really not very good defensively and makes poor plays when caught in his own zone. This was the way it was in Edmonton as well.