Flames doing their homework to prepare for Ducks
Quote:
"We have the utmost respect. They are one of the best teams in the NHL, if not the best team when you look at stats," Hartley said. "You ask any expert or any people around the game; here is a team that, we had two white sheets on the walls in our offices that had strengths and weaknesses of the Ducks. We were running out of paper on the strengths side, while the weaknesses side was still a blank piece of paper."
Hartley added, tongue firmly planted in cheek: "To be honest, I don't even know why we're going there, but we'll do our best."
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The bolded part reminds me of something similar that Darryl Sutter said before Game 1 in Detroit back in 04. I think Sutter tongue-in-cheek showed everyone a newspaper.
"Hey fellas. Look at this newspaper here. Apparently we got no chance at beating the Red Wings. You see this? No chance. I guess we should all just pack up and go home."
Of course, we go on to win it in OT and Darryl immediately goes "Well you know what this is worth?" crumples the newspaper up and tosses it in the garbage bin.