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Originally Posted by dino7c
Half these guys didn't even play together you are taking all the decent skaters from a decade of Flames teams. 04 Flames were not very fast it was a much different game though
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Rewatch a game my friend, this team was fast and hard on pucks. They hit everything that moved. The league was also slower back in the day, so maybe some of these players don’t seem fast, but at the time they were.
Chris Clark, Marty Gelinas, Oleg Saprykin, Donovan, Nieminen, Kobasew, Lombardi and even Iggy and Connie at the time could move as they were in their primes. A lot of them played heavy and went to the front of the net. M
It was ugly hockey, but a lot of the skilled teams we faced weren’t up to the challenge except Tampa. Of course the old rules allowed for a lot of obstruction too and hitting at times was borderline charging, so today’s players really can’t play this kind of style 82 games without breaking down physically aka Ferland.