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“It’s tough to teach an old dog new tricks,” said Sutter, who left a well-oiled machine in New Jersey to be closer to his family, his ranch, and eventually, work with brother Darryl in Calgary.

“Yet, there needs to be new tricks here because the old way is not working as far as our performance on the ice. There’s too much inconsistency.”

Playfair said it and Keenan said it, and now finally the GM's brother. There's a big problem there. All those comments about how Brent Sutter had to "break bad habits" of the players from the Keenan years -- in hindsight, the "bad habit" games were the best games the Flames would play this year.