This is a tough one because Gio is still a good player and when he first became captain you could see some positive shift in the way the Flames battled harder. That's been lost over the years and I do believe the effects of the team captain are overblown but it would be nice to have a bit of a hot head every once in a while to strike fear into players that mediocrity just isn't good enough. That was an issue under nice guy Gulutzan but from what I have heard Gio has started to fall into the Iginla nice guy, silent leader follow by example territory and I'm not sure if that's what some of these young players need. I didn't like Hartley's system but I do think this team really needed to be whipped constantly to get their best. Maybe Peters can push the right buttons but these players need to get conditioned to not accept losing or they are never going to take that step forward we have been waiting for.
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