I get the sense that the Canes are the team that Maloney thinks the Flames are (or are trying to be). No superstar franchise player. Strong defensively. Scoring spread out among a bunch of guys. Excellent (typically) goaltending.
Obviously we don't have anywhere near the level of talent they do, even without them having a franchise superstar, which makes the whole thing a not very good comparison. On top of that, the Canes are great at cruising through the regular season and one or two divisional rounds of the playoffs, but then crash hard in the conference finals against more playoff-built teams (1-16) in their last 4 trips. Probably not the ideal model we should be trying for.
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