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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
The Flames style of play is terrible. Players were brought in to augment that style of play.
Get faster more skilled players. Play a more skillful style (play in the middle of the ice, use speed instead of the mucking it up along the boards and the default 'get pucks deep' style they currently play) like the good teams (NSH, WPG, TBL, BOS, TOR etc) play.
Get the defence activated into the attack.
Treliving has seemingly embraced this boring style (coaches hired, players brought in). Bill Parcell's used to say:
You are what you are until you change.
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Maybe Treliving’s daddy Brian Burke has something to do with the recent truculent acquisitions of Hamonic, Stewart, Brouwer, etc. I don’t think we will ever really know.