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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
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.
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In 2004 they were a team of underdogs that had something to prove, and Sutter brought in a few really good late additions in to the mix
I remember wave after wave of fore checkers, that was a fast and hard working team that got all over the opposing D.