Thanks for this info. From Halifax NS here, good to see a fellow Atlantic Canadian on here, not too many of us from my experience.
Gallants hands off approach requires a very strong leadership core, which Trouba showed some qualities of that with his outburst in Chicago, but theres no enough resolve in the entire leadership group or team to make things work when things are going as poorly as they are and things begin to spiral. That paired with the curious lineup deicisons, lack of accountability for results, and poor SV% and SH% tanking games and losing points, will ultimately be his downfall.
Being a high-level hockey player myself, when a room is divided its hard to become undivided without a coaching change. Players see how they are being treated differently without reason, guys become frustrated and start talking, tension boils and guys start going at eachother and forming smaller subsets within a team. Its poisonous.
I would have to assume there is a set of guys internally frustrated with being held accountable when no one else is, and not getting their earned opportunities just because a guy is paid more than them. There is likely also another set, with possibly overlap, frustrated at the coaches for giving other guys chances over them because of salary or age and not merit. And additionally, I would not be surprised if lower down the lineup guys that provide on-ice and dressing room leadership (Goodrow and Lindgren) are frustrated with the leadership group and the coaching staff for lack of self-accountability and sacrifice and accountability in general.
While we are just posters on here, and we really can all talk the talk and its easy to when you're not Gallant or Drury or a player, often times perceptions of issues from outside the team actually are shared with frustrations internally, even if you;ll never hear that.
