[MR_BIGGS]

From Ken Hitchcock:

You look at us, we have an identity,” Hitchcock said. “You look at L.A., they have an identity. You look at the way Detroit was, they had an identity. Dallas, we had an identity that was different from Colorado's. The type of players we had, and the type of players we recruited, was all the same. They all to the style of game we wanted to play.

“If you look at Philadelphia, they play with an offensive flair and everybody plays that way and if you come in there and don't fit, you look out of place. It's the same thing with us. If you don't play above the puck with us, you look bad on the ice. We're kind of a checking mindset, gritty, stay-on-the-right-side-of-the-puck team.

“We knew we weren't going to lead the league in scoring with the [David] Backeses and [T.J.] Oshies, but we could formulate an identity around them. I think that's the way you win now.”

What was the Canucks identity? I think it changed after the Hodgson trade and they didn't adjust.