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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
True, but he didn't that game and the team lost, which is why I pointed it out.
He hasn't had a lot of extra feistiness for some time now. It's hard to maintain that over a season, but if Hathaway is going to play, he has to play with an edge.
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I'm really starting to wonder whether the lack of feistiness is because of Gulutzan.
- Tkachuk started the year real feisty, but hasn't been that noticeable in this regard lately;
- Bennett started the same way and has a history of being super feisty and physical, but hasn't looked that way at all since taking a lot of penalties early in the season;
- Hathaway looked great, but like you say, in recent games, really hasn't been that noticeable and sat many games even after having played well.
I know both Tkachuck and Bennett took a lot of penalties early which hurt the team, which explains why Gulutzan would want them to "tone things down" a bit, but I find that there really isn't that "#### disturbing" and "feisty" element anymore in the Flames game anymore. I feel like Gulutzan may have told these guys to tone it down too much.
I really don't see Gulutzan as a fit with a Brian Burke type team. He seems to think along the lines of the anti-truculence crowd on this board.