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Originally Posted by dino7c
I suggest you watch a game...Detroit was all over the Flames and Kipper stood on his head. As the years go by people seem to think the 04 Flames were some dominant team. Realistically if Bert doesn't lose his #### the Flames are out in round one.
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I didn’t mean that the Flames dominated the clearly more talented teams, like we were talking about a rebuilding, smaller market, 6th seed vs the elite of the elite teams. But the Flames still needed to win 4 games in each series, so clearly their brash style was good enough to will themselves to victory despite all their injuries and despite the clear disadvantage in talent. It was just put on the work boots each night, skate hard, hit hard, play in straight lines and get to the front of the net. It was a battle of attrition as Darryl put it and they wore their opponents down with this kind of style.
But like I said before, I’m no Darryl Sutter advocate, I’m not sure even he could fix all of this team’s problems long term. This is a flawed roster that needs major renovations before they can take the next jump.