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Originally Posted by boogerz
Besides the question of whether his success was reliant on the Dustin Wolf factor, Love also was guilty of mishandling Valimaki and seems to favor grit more than pure skill (e.g. Pettersen, Poirier, and Rubins were all regular scratches during the season), which doesn't really align with the makeup of the Flames roster. He made the unforced error of foregoing home ice advantage in the playoffs. Was he also mostly deploying the Flames' mediocre systems, but with greater success than Sutter?
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?? No they weren't. Poirier was a rookie and sat a couple of games in an effort to see the game from a different angle. Rubins was brought in as a depth blueliner. Petterson was a hot and cold player but was not a regular scratch. The only regular scratches were Josh Brook and Alex Gallant.