We've heard it many times from both Brian Burke and Brad Treliving, they want to change the play style of the Flames from an off the rush, stretch pass team a more systematic possessing team. Combine that with truculence, skill, speed and you have the team that they want to accomplish. Teams that are similar to this are, STL, LA, ANA, WSH. What do your thoughts on changing the teams play style?
Brian Burke: Flames want to be a ‘black and blue’ team
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/b...ack-blue-team/
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“I think it boils down to three or four basic points that (general manager Brad Treliving) outlined (in his press conference earlier on Tuesday),” Burke told co-hosts Bob McCown and John Shannon. “He wants a physical team. A big, aggressive team. And a truculent team. I hate to use that term because it’ll make everyone laugh but our vision is that we want that kind of team. We like that kind of hockey. Our fans like it and we think it’s essential to winning in the West.
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"We want to be a black and blue team," Burke added. "A top six, bottom six type (of) team that likes it rough. A puck possession team. So plenty of skill in the top six. We think we have that core group here."
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"We think puck possession is hard to come by and we prefer puck possession play to what we played, which was chip it in and go get it," he said. "We didn't have a big enough (team) to back it up. The third thing would be special teams. You got to average somewhere around 15 on your special teams. You can be 30th overall on your penalty kill but you better be first on the power play. We were in the bottom five on both. You're not going to win in this league if you're not league average or up."
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