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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Players did play hard. Why do you think we held a playoff spot as long as we did. In fact, right around the 5 day mandated break, we were sitting in the top 10 in the standings. To say this team didn't work hard all season long is a cop out...
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No. I completely disagree with this. Watching the Flames on a nightly basis it was obvious much of the time that they had more to give, and were either incapable or unwilling to give it. There are really hard working teams like the Vegas Knights, the Columbus Blue Jackets, and the Vancouver Canucks, and there are teams which appear to be lamentably short of the same tenacity from one night to the next. The Flames seemed to work MUCH harder for Hartley than they did for Gulutzan—for whatever reason.