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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
So if you cloned the current Flames and they played themselves in a seven game series, whose team would win? Hartley, GG, Peters or Ward?
Many of you seem very confident in your answers. I’m not.
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Hartley definitely in if it was for a playoff run. His authoritarian methods are outdated but he would be able to implement a style of play that suits the talent of the team and would be able to hold his head above water tactically. Peters and his Babcockian methods are also outdated but he was fairly intelligent, no-nonsense and it's possible he could win a series with this group. Ward could maybe win a series if the opposition was stripped down to an AHL quality roster like the Jets were in that preliminary series but he's going to get destroyed tactically by opposition coaches as we have seen going back to the playoffs last year, that opposition coaches solve Ward after playing a few games against them as the more teams play the Flames the easier it gets to beat them. Gulutzan would have a better chance at winning a playoff series with this group than Ward as at the very least he would have the possession stats in the Flames favor and if the goaltender was hot they could steal a series. Regardless I don't think Ward is even going to get the Flames to the playoffs this season so he's probably not going to get another chance with this group.