Jeez. I wonder if some people even like the Flames, be it now or ever
The Flames roster under Hartley was really bad. I mean downright terrible. They got no return for franchise players and capable veterans. Josh fricking Jooris was a poster boy for the team mantra
Hartley put together a game plan that worked for the roster he had. Yeah, it involves giving the outside, blocking a ton of shots, then a quick transition, stretch passes and odd man rushes with activated D
They were well conditioned and tenacious, and had a belief that if they were in a game going in to the third, they could pull it off. All of the third period comebacks were not simply a result of lucky bounces off someone’s ass
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