En écoutant le podcast de Seravalli, une partie intéressante de ce que Conroy a dit. Ils veulent ajouter un top 6 en avant. Ils veulent également construire une chimie, et ont spécifiquement dit qu’il se sentait mal pour Huberdeau et Kadri qui rebondissaient tellement. Il s’attend également à ce que les joueurs vedettes jouent davantage à partir de maintenant.
[Frank Seravalli on Twitter: « Learned a lot about Craig Conroy’s vision for #Flames in last 24 hours. His to-do has two more goals: 1) Calgary’s stars play more. 2) Acquire another Top 6 forward. Frankly Speaking | Ep. 15: https://t.co/yA7ZevQuiL Presented by @OLGproline. Join: https://t.co/W0NLcrQgeP https://t.co/USWQIEA5SN » / Twitter](https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1661413114733002766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1661413114733002766%7Ctwgr%5E31dd033115805018661 6315e93b74606321191c2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yardbarker.com%2Fnhl %2Farticles%2Fflames_new_gm_says_he_wants_to_add_a_top_six_forward%2Fs1_16454_38849378)
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SwedishMeatwall
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Literally all of this is common sense
God I hate Sutter
I’d assume Hanafin or Kylington would be the likely bait if we want a top 6 forward
Him along with every other GM.
For the love of God, if you add anyone, please let them be in their mid 20’s or younger.
We are headed toward SJS territory with all these 30+ year olds.
Sutter would’ve tried to add more old, slow veterans like Jeff Carter
*shudder*
Lucic was good at keeping the play dead. We probably weren’t going to get scored on, but we also probably weren’t going to score. It was prime dead puck era Sutter thinking. Playing your best players in situations that your best players need to be on the ice for is definitely going to be some revolutionary thinking lol
Eh, I’ll go against the grain and say I’m not a fan of rigid line combos. Because if anything, that was one of biggest issues with all the coaches over the course of Treliving’s tenure – they’d stumble across one combination that clicked and then stick with it forever and ever no matter what happened.
Like Gaudreau and Monahan being glued together regardless of cold streaks or the latter being injured. Or keeping Backlund and Frolik together even though both held reputations as versatile spark plugs that could help other lines get going. That element was completely wasted. Or Sutter last year in keeping Lindholm with Toffoli or Huberdeau with Kadri for so long though there were so many other things he could have tried.
I mean, obviously if something’s working it’s not going to be changed for the sake of change. But when a line gets cold, there needs to be that flexibility and willingness to change it up and explore other possible combinations.
They need to give their AHL players an honest shot at making the roster
We have the talent already in the organization. Yeah it would be nice to get another top 6 but how about letting some of these young guys make the team and play. We cut the cancer out with sutter. His do it my way, yell and scream and act like a dick attitude was about the worst way to handle talent. Guys like huby and Kadri and whoever else know how to play already. We just need to trust them to do it. A mental adjustment of trust these guys to do their job is gonna be huge. Let’s see how they do with proper coaching (ahem Mitch love ahem) and a gm that let’s them roll.
Does anyone else feel like I’ve been hearing that we want to add a top 6 forward for like 10 years? There’s been lots of roster turnover obviously but it just seems like we’ve been saying this at one point or another for a long time in the last decade or so
Playing the star players more was an interesting tidbit he mentioned in his interview with Marek as well.
It’s nice to be able to just roll four lines, but that requires the right personnel on the fourth line (doubtful at times last season), and it can’t just be something you do every single game in every situation no matter what. **Why does that even have to be stated?** Sometimes I wonder if Sutter is in the early stages of dementia.
I’m seriously excited for next season. I feel that there are a number of things that needed tweaking via common sense to snap The Flames out of mediocrity.
for example, Huberdeau on correct wing and young fast goal scorers (Coronato maybe) for him to set up. Markstrom to be out of his child-is-being-born slump. Rest of the team to stop the Sutter system where we just pepper the net with useless perimeter shots.
This is going to be a fun season coming up.
Yup. All of this is common sense stuff.
We were screaming out for a scoring winger that can play with Hubs as he loads the bullets for onetimers like no ones business.
Get BFJA already
Adding a top 6 forward sounds like vintage Treliving off season talk. Fortunately there is no cap room so likely no UFA signing. Hopefully they try and develop a top 6 from within.
He really is trying to define what he wants in the next coach.
Honestly Calgary needs to do something about markstrom, buy him out or something and maybe grab Lehner from Vegas or basically any other goalie. Markstrom is done, he was the sole reason why Calgary lost the series against Edmonton last year.
And he’s the sole reason Calgary didn’t make it to playoffs this year. All those first goals (and many on the first shot) he let in, with all the overtime losses. If Calgary won a quarter of those ot, or markstrom didn’t let in a quarter of those first goals, Calgary was easily in the playoffs.
Living or dying by markstrom was Calgary’s downfall.
Would be cool if his first move as GM is signing Matthew Phillips.
But don’t we have the top 6 forwards? Hubey, Lindholm, Toffoli? Breadman, kadri, and Dube.
Then third line of backlund, Coleman and coronato?
Imagine Clayton Keller in a flames jersey.. <3
It feels like a lot of what he is saying in these interviews is a shot at Darryl. Like I knew the roster hated him but damn seems the whole management team had a real problem with him too
I’m no expert, but the way I saw last season was the Flames should have had the following pairings:
1. Huberdeau-Lindholm
2. Toffoli-Kadri
3. Mangiapane-Backlund
4. Coleman-Lewis
Then Dube, Ruzicka, Pelletier, and Duehr should have been added to these pairings to make lines with Lucic or Ritchie occasionally being put in the line-up due to injury or if one of the young players needs to sit. This would result in a relatively balanced, defensively responsible line-up, that you could roll lines without too much fear of matchups.
The mistake I see in how the Flames deployed their players was that players like Lucic and Ritchie were played too often, too far up in the line-up. If they were being rotated through the 4th line so that Pelletier or Duehr could spend some time in the AHL I wouldn’t have a problem with it, but it makes far more sense to have any of Dube, Ruzicka, Pelletier, or Duehr playing in the top 9 than these players. Dube and Ruzicka are defensively responsible enough to play against top lines, and have offensive upside neither Ritchie or Lucic have; and Duehr and Pelletier are ideally suited to play in the bottom 6 beside Backlund or Lewis and add some speed to these lines.
Maybe I’m wrong, but these pairings just make sense to me and we rarely got to see any of them deployed; and almost never with the young players I mentioned.