So I'm of two minds.
Perhaps it was coming through the game myself that gives me duality on this issue.
Finding the players who can go end to end and provide that consistent spark, consistent effort like a Datsyuk or Kane are so incredibly rare to find.
At the same time, I played with guys who at the forward position who had a little bit of that flash and dash but would turn the puck over so often and put the team in bad situations that it's hard to say to those guys "just go for it and fly".
Even myself, I played like an extremely poor man's Torey Krug (except I got used on the PK a lot). I could fly with the puck, create odd man chances and I was generally encouraged by my coaches to go for it, BUT I had more then my share of moments where I turned the puck over in a bad situation or tried the dangerous pass coming out and led to a goal and for that you see a bit of pine.
I would like the Bruins to be a bit more open offensively HOWEVER, Larionov is not being entirely intellectually honest with his statement. Yes Detroit lets Datsyuk fly, Yes they push the tempo, but do they not also play a smothering style of defence as well? Same for the Hawks.
I think even under Claude there can be more of a median ground where you are defensively responsible yet still have freedom to take chances and I think were starting to see that shift a bit with Pastrnak, with Krug, with Hamilton and hopefully now with Spooner.