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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
We were never truculent when Burke was here and that pissed me off to no end. Like why was he even here? other than to be with his daughter going to school in Calgary.
Easiest team to play against for the past 10 years.
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Hmm, I would personally argue against this, under Burke and Treliving we had Big Ern, Westgarth, Ferland and the epic Engelland 1v2 vs the Canucks. Then after Burkie left and we had to rely on concussion history Ferland, broken jaw Hamonic, and 18 year old Sam Bennett to fight, things really turned to hell in a handbasket.
I remember specifically about Monahan and Gaudreau's rookie years about how they were able to play how they wanted because they could let the big boys handle the rough stuff. Things have been somewhat better after adding Lucic but having some other big boys to police the ice with him have really changed things, they have that backbone again.