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Originally Posted by Freeway
The key is chemistry, and that's something intangible that nobody can predict. Did anybody see the 2004 group gelling the way they did? Heck no, and Darryl Sutter basically went mad trying to replicate that chemistry in Calgary for the rest of his tenure.
The comments yesterday about the team hanging out together off-ice gives me some optimism for the year, though.
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The key is talent.
That 2004 team goes nowhere if they don't have arguably the best player in the world in Iginla and arguably the best goalie as well. Throw in a top level defender (Regehr) and top level coaching and the chemistry was nice but much further down the list than straight out talent.
It's great that they are all buddy/buddy off the ice but that likely has about .2% of an effect when they are playing teams with much more talent than they have.