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Originally Posted by blender
So if the Flames were to make the conference finals two years in a row and lose a close series to the eventual cup winner, I will be sure of 2 things:
They will be a good team.
Posters here will be moaning.
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Okay, so let's just continue this comparison, yeah? Islanders are fast, hard working, tenacious, tough, responsible, and aggressive on the forecheck. Flames, as a team, are basically none of those things. AND we're talking about making another slower player the Captain (in Tkachuk). Great.
No, the Flames
could win the way the Isles do, is what I'm saying, and even then it's only by adding pieces. The Flames are not as good as the Islanders, and we should be happy if they were, star-power or no. But they're not, so it's a moot point. Mooter yet is the idea that the team should be building into a "high skill" type team. Again, they're not, as a group, that kind of team, and that, unfortunately, isn't a "work ethic" thing, it's a talent thing, unchangeable.