READ MORE ON CASTAGNA HERE<\/a><\/p>\nAnd all of a sudden, Head Coach Ryan Huska has a half-dozen capable centremen at his disposal, a group that’s helped the team start in the top-10 in even-strength face-off efficiency (running at a 52.3% win rate) to begin the new campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Matt Coronato has quietly put together impressive numbers on his strong side on Calgary’s top line – winning 12 of his 17 face-off attempts in the two meetings with Seattle – while\u00a0Martin Pospisil has been bumped up the chart to a unit that also features middleman Ryan Strome.<\/p>\n
“I guess we could call it situational, but at the same time not,” Huska said Wednesday, when asked about deploying two natural centres on the Pospisil line. “I really like what\u00a0Marty’s done in the middle of the ice, and I think he’s been in a really good penalty killer for us there, so I don’t want to move him out of that position. I think Stromer has done some good things as well, but I want to see Marty stay in the middle of the ice.<\/p>\n
“Stromer’s played the wall before, so there’s not really an issue with him in that area. What it does is give us an opportunity to use a rightie and leftie on face-offs on that line.”<\/p>\n
The morning skate will provide more clues as to whether or not\u00a0Castagna debuts Thursday; he and Suniev both practiced on a line with Adam Klapka Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
But there’s no doubt the week’s roster moves – which saw veterans Brayden Pachal and Connor Zary pass through waivers and join the Wranglers – have sent a ripple through the dressing room.<\/p>\n
Which, after a difficult start to the campaign, might be just the tonic the Flames need.<\/p>\n
“It should,” said Huska when asked if the moves should provide a jolt for the group. “I mean at the end of the day, there’s a fine line between being comfortable and too comfortable at times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think it is a pretty good message, not only for the individual players, but the other guys that are in it as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. Centre Street Week two of the NHL season has brought no shortage of storylines in the Stampede…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-925529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}