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Originally Posted by St. Pats
I think we are seeing that Burke is right. You can't win in the playoffs with a small team. Regular season no problem as they all coast through games with little to no physical play. But it ramps up bigtime in the playoffs. Heck we had one guy running around and it half killed the Canucks.
But it's not fourth liners or goons that need to have some size and toughness / it's got to be sprinkled through the lineup.
There is no way they are solving this problem by inserting one AHL guy.
They are facing a big strong lineup with some of those players their best players. Our physical play is coming almost exclusively from fourth liners. The mix isn't there yet and of course it's way to early in the rebuild for them to have all the holes filled.
There is not really much they can do / next couple of years they just need to balance out their lineup.
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Agreed, but they've got to do something.
Its tough to replicate what the Ducks have, love them or hate them Getzlaf and Perry are huge, they're physical, they're mean and they're insanely talented.
That combination of size, grit and talent is unbelievable. You look at the Sedins and Canucks fans want them to be what Getzlaf and Perry are and the Sedins cannot ever be that.
In Bob I trust because that was a goddamn clinic.