You don't surround your top guys that happen to play soft with soft support guys.
Zadarov on the regular system had close to as many hits as all the Flames D-men combined. Hanifin the Flames toughest d-man would have the 5th ,ost hits on the Avs roster.
The Flames premier shut down physical d-Man Hamonic seldom was in a situation where he would knock someone off the puck..... only 44 hits in 62 regular season games.
The Flames played far more physical in this brief series .... it was a huge jump from their comfort zone.
Gio should not be captain.
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