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Originally Posted by transplant99
wut?
This team is as far from that Kings team as one could get.
They were big, heavy, rough and nasty to play against, not to mention they were as offensively challenged as could be.....they just needed someone to pull them all in the same direction.
This club is as baby butt soft as has ever pulled the sweater on in this city.
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It's an identity issue.
Outside of Gaudreau, Brodie, Kulak and Stajan, why can't the rest of the players be relied on to play a heavier game.
I just think a team with Ferland, tkatchuk, Bennett, Hathaway, Monahan, Jankowski, Brouwer, Lazar, even Backlund/Frolik can play a more in your face style. Defensively, Giordano, hamonic, stone, heck even Hamilton could be grittier.
This team isn't made up of as many soft pieces. It's a group of players who literally have no identity as a team.
A coach like Sutter won't convert them to the big bad LA kings. I have little doubt another coach would actually create an identity and gameplay that rendered an actual 'tough team to play against' rather than just regurgitating the buzz words, only to come back time after time and confess this group just 'crumples'.