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Originally Posted by Burning Beard
I feel like they have been trying to address this for the future with their drafting the last little stretch. Finding the guys like Mangiapane and Dube. Hopeful that Pelletier and Zary play that way. Seems like a changing of the guard is on the horizon.
Tough doesn't have to necessarily mean big and mean in the new NHL when scrums are mostly glove mashing. I noticed Mangiapane jump in and rip Brodie out of a scrum. He didn't care he was a former teammate. He saw a scrum and got in there.
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Yeah, that seemed weird to see - but it shouldn't. It should happen all the time. This team is too nice, and they need to get over it.
Backlund's play so far this season makes him, as of today, my easy choice for exposure to Seattle - and the more I think about his time here, and the "nice/soft" identity that this team has, that I'd be completely fine with him moving on.
Yeah, I'm on the negativity train right now but it is only because of how unengaged this team looks yet again this year. Poor starts leading to playing from behind. The team pushes back (as other teams fall into shells to defend the lead), and then go into the post game saying that they battled back but that they can't start games like that. How many bloody years does this need to go on before they make actual changes to address it? I don't think it is a unique issue to just the Flames though, I think it's a pretty common theme for bottom-half teams.
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I’ve always thought identity is the most overrated fan/talking head speak in sports.
Not all 31 teams have an identity, it’s a way for people to describe teams in a general way without actually talking about the real problems.
You know what I want our identity to be? Winning all the time.
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Yeah the concept of "identity" is silly, but I really think it is just the media trying to put a word to the question of "what is wrong with this team? They have talent, they have depth - but they constantly fall apart". I think that it comes down to the fact that they don't compete hard enough night in and night out, and they never have. They aren't engaged at puck drop, and for years they are far too passive for the early parts of games.