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Originally Posted by EVERLAST
Darryl Sutter said the blueprint is here.
Now unless Darryls just playing nice then he actually said these words.
I think Darryl is impeccable with his word. He has my faith and trust 100% .
I think it's time the players are held accountable and it's about F ing time.
How long have we heard from how many coaches , analysts , armchair GMs , the media that something is sorely missing on this team.?
Just finished watching the last dance ....one thing MJ wouldn't stand for was losing and what that man did 6 times in 8 years was wow....not to mention that Phil Jackson was a phenomenal coach and he had the best players 100% loyalty.
We all saw what Darryl did in 04 with Jarome and several others .
I'm still to this day disappointed that 2005 didn't get played. We would have been back in the final.....I know it.
That team learned what it would take and Darryl knew what he could get from our roster.
I hope we can just get back to normal at this point because COVID is seriously harming every living being on this planet and I feel kinda selfish moaning and bitching about my team not even contending .
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Has accountability been the biggest problem with this core the past 7 years though? I don’t doubt that Darryl wants to win here, but finding/building the right group of players is the more difficult task to accomplish. I mean Darryl believes in building up the middle, but signing or trading for a legit #1 center in this league is almost impossible, you have to draft these guys.
Hating to lose is a nice trait to have. But Tkachuk hates to lose maybe more then anyone on the team and he’s struggled mightily this season. I remember Mike Smith hating to lose here, but that didn’t stop him from giving up muffins. Jonathan Toews hates to lose maybe more then anyone in the league and his team has been outside of the playoff picture for years. I don’t know if hating to lose without the ability helps much, you have to have the skills/abilities first and foremost. That’s what Michael Jordan had, he had the greatest skill set in the basketball world to to with the will.
Lastly, I don’t know how that 04-05 Flames team would’ve fared. But Jordan Leopold was interviewed not too long ago on Calgary radio and he mentioned that he might have skipped the entire season due to injury. He mentioned that it took him over a year to recover from that 2004 Cup run. So the Flames might have had one of their top pairing defensemen that season. Just goes to show what kind of grind the Stanley Cup playoffs can be. Just an absolute war.