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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The Flames under Sutter were far from a slow team.
Donovan, Reinprecht, Neiminen, Glencross, McAmmond, Nilson, Conroy, Lombardi, Gelinas, Saprykin, Iginla, Lundmark, Kobasew, Leopold, Ritchie, Loyns, Amonte, Tanguay, Freisen, Boyd, Nystrom, Bourque.
They range from pretty fast, to very fast. I am sure there are more. He seemed to like fast players and acquired quite a few.
I would say the Flames under Sutter's reign were a much faster team than what we have now.
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100%. I happened to re-watch a period or 2 of one of 2004 playoff games recently and I was surprised to see how fast that team could skate and how invested they were. A bunch of pluggers who sacrificed mind, body and soul. They left it all on the ice every night, played hard, played heavy, played with urgency and played with speed.
But with all that said, Darryl Sutter would probably be playing the exact same checking style that Ward haw implemented. The difference with Sutter’s Kings or Sutter’s Flames is that the group he coached played an effective checking style, whereas the majority of players on this team is incapable of doing it for a long period of time or in the playoffs. It’s just not in them or in their nature.