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Originally Posted by darthma
Maybe this was said tongue and cheek, but many many posters on this forum point to the nutso game against the Canucks last year as the turning point for the season. I've heard things like 'ever since the game against the Nucks last year, our record has been...'
That game *was* signficant to the Flames. McGratton was a huge part of that. I'm surprised that people are saying that enforcers are the way of the dinosaur when it was those dinosaurs that helped turn this thing around. It lit a fire under the team, probably bringing them closer together. Now, we have no presence. Suddenly, are we all of the mind that the Flames are a finesse team? I keep hearing Hrudey say that 'we could have won 4 of those 5 last games', but in my mind, the Flames were getting tossed around.
The Flames need to get a little more edgy in the way they play. If that's what Cherry was trying to say, then yes, I agree with it.
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I was completely serious. It's not just toughness that this team lacks, but it is anger in general and the reputation that we are not to be toiled with. They need to have an us versus the world attitude. I think the minute they started to become a feel good story this season was right around the beginning of the recent slump. Cherry is right, we need to change our reputation and I think another high profile brawl with guys like McGrattan and Engelland let loose would go along way to changing that. Heck call up Gillies and let him go wild for a game or 2.