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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Ugh, the last thing this team needs is a designated tough guy. We need players who can play hockey. I keep coming back to the Anaheim sweep. Did they sweep us because they had more tough guys? No. They swept us because they had line after line of depth and their bottom half of the roster absolutely murdered our bottom half. Adding "toughness" would just make that problem worse.
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Wrong on both counts. The Ducks swept the Flames because the Flames goaltending collapsed at the worst possible time, and a number of players struggled with discipline and decision making. That series was the picture of experience overcoming youth, and had very little to do with a disparity in skill which was actually fairly even.