[Burning Beard]

Originally Posted by 868904

The players didn't play well before Sutter even arrived. They had their "race track" coaches and failed too.

Darryl was a last resort and now we know for sure that it's the players.

I'm fine with tearing this team down to suit Darryl. It's not hard to build a Darryl Sutter team; he himself thinks some of the pieces are already here. It's harder to build the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Flames should play Darryl Sutter hockey, even in 89, we had some skill like Loob, Mullen and Nieuwendyk, but they were surrounded by big bruisers and the other skills guys played a tough game (Gilmour, Fleury, Roberts, etc).

Big, tough, smash mouth hockey is the identity of hockey in Calgary. It's what the fans want and like.

I'm not sure why there is always an element here who wishes the Flames were the Oilers or Lightning.

Good post.