[Caged Great]

This team seems to be confused on how it's built. It's trying to be a finesse team, when they only have a couple of finesse players. They are trying to be a fast team when they are not overly so. They should adapt the system to fit the personnel instead of trying to fit the personnel into the system. That was why Bouwmeester was horrible until Hartley started to utilize his strengths.

The Flames strengths are puck possession, and toughness. They need to bully the other teams and be more physically assertive. Instead they tried to neuter that aspect in guys like Ferland and Lazar and frankly they have been horrible. They are trying to be something they are not.

It is fine to have finesse players and be a physical team. Sutter did well with having Huselius and Tanguay. Skill is skill and is completely separate from everything else.

Eric Francis was right in the intermission, that this team has no identity because they are not using their players correctly. At all.

If that doesn't change, there should be changes.