They're a soft team without a lot of emotion. Most of the team does flybys instead of finishing checks and it's been happening all year. Obviously the goon era is over but they need to lose a couple guys who don't want to get their hands dirty this offseason. I don't fault them individually if it is not their game but there are just too many guys who avoid contact and scrums on the same team.
Should buyout Brouwer... Staj will retire. Good chance to bring in a couple buzzsaws and revamp the 4th line.
But more concerning is that the few guys who can play chippy don't seem to stick up for one another except for Hamonic. Brouwer has shown passion about 3 times in a flames jersey. Bennett and Hathaway play tough once every 6 weeks.
Lately the guy who puzzles me the most re: rough stuff is Ferland... Was a wrecking ball at a younger age and lately he is a perimeter player who doesn't want to get his hands dirty. He's a 40 point a year 1st liner who doesn't hit or fight consistently anymore.
It almost seems like they don't like each other much out on the ice when they don't answer cheap shots and slashes back like they have been all year.
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