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Originally Posted by 868904
Oilers and Ducks owned the Flames last year, you can blame bad goaltending all you want, but the Flames were never able to play their game against these two teams.
Guys who are normally "truculent" like Ferland, Tkachuk, Bennett, Bouma, Brouwer (well sometimes) were never "truculent" in games against these teams. Ferland would answer the bell when he was challenged or if a teammate was roughed up (see Thompson on Backlund), but otherwise, he wasn't as aggressive or assertive against these teams as compared to other teams.
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What in the world. The Flames arguably pushed the Ducks around in that playoff series. They lost because they couldn't score 5v5 (and Elliott couldn't stop a puck) not because we didn't have Bollig and McGratton in the line-up.