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Originally Posted by Vinny01
The hiring of Torts reminds me of the flames brining in Keenan. Bring in a hard ass coach with a short shelf life to get a team whose window is closing over the hump. It wont work. The Canucks look to have a similar problem as the flames. They have some nice young forwards now but their core is over 30 and they have no one in that 23-28 age group
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I agree with most of this. Except that IMO it might work, as IMO it almost worked with Keenan. Remember, he had over half of his top 6 forwards injured, and half his top 4 defensemen. And even so, he took the hawks to 6 games. If the team was healthy that year, it might have been different.