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Originally Posted by Gaudfather
The big difference being that the players themselves believe much more in the "Gulutzan Flames" than they did in the "Hartley Flames".
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That's kind of hard to say, at times that team looked very much like they were ready to go through a wall for Hartley and each other.
The bigger difference is the amount of size, depth and experience this team has. Hartleys Flames were a young and undersized group that clearly lacked depth.
In the 2015 playoffs Hartley used 14 guys with no previous NHL playoff experience, including a goalie (Rämö). The current team only 2 has guys without any playoff experience, Tkachuk and Johnson. Plus the team is physically a lot tougher bunch, and more skilled. Brouwers contract might be bad, but I'm pretty happy to have a guy that scored 8 goals and 13 points in the last playoffs on our 3rd line.