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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
I don't think that Tkachuk brings his team into the battle. I have started seeing it as he is bringing the battle to his team.
I 100% think that the players see it as an issue if Tkachuk is doing this every night. Remember when the Flames "owned" the Kings? That elbow happened, the rivalry happened, and suddenly the Kings sucked but were always up to the challenge when meeting the Flames.
Know why rivalry games are exciting? Because they are emotional and you can see all the players GAF metre going up. Tkachuk making everyone a rival - what does that do? It simply makes every team put more of an effort against the Flames, no?
So I have stopped looking at Tkachuk dragging his team into the battle. I see him as dragging the battle to the team all the time, and he himself often disappears in those games. The playoffs is where the battle and effort get ramped up to the max (or it should!), so in the playoffs that's great. Only Tkachuk hasn't exactly performed well there.
Yeah, I don't think it is in the Flames best interests to have a battle for every game of an 82 game season. I don't think it is wise to have the other teams circle the dates they have against Calgary. It is not going to help this team win more if every game means a battle against an opponent that really wants to make sure they beat you MORE than beat the other teams they play.
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So who you think has the advantage in the playoffs teams that played hard for 82 games or the soft teams that rise to the occasion for a couple of games at the start of the playoff. You realize that the Flames softie approach has on got them 1 first round match up that they luckily got to play the other team with a softie approach.
Tampa was a great softie team with playoff disappointment. They went and got some a-hole players that made other teams upset .. now they are a great team
I guess that Gallagher and Kadri and Marchand and Tom Wilson, Cernak, are making their respective teams tired of playing too hard.
Lucky that Gio grew out of his making LA play harder by going after Dustin Brown. The Flames got rid of Reghr as he was lighting a fire under Edmonton going after Hemsky.
When John Elway broke in with the Broncos he threw the ball too hard for some of the receivers to handle. They didn't tell Elway to throw softer they got receivers that could hang on to hard throws.