I actually disagree with all of your interpretations of each of these quotes. Sounds more like to me that he's pissed with himself and his team that they keep letting things slip away.
I don't comment on here much, obviously, but I've been a part of this forum for quite a while, and I know enough that when you post things, Replacement, you add your own agenda to the mix when you're talking. Don't lead in with Hall having a loser's mentality, then show small snippets of quotes and pick each apart. When you start a conversation with that type of message, you're leading people. And you do this often.
Now, I haven't personally met a lot of professional competitors... but there's no way that some of these players are OK with losing. Hell, I am on a dodgeball team in a rec level league and it bothers me when I lose. Things haven't gelled yet, and the team has gone through how many coaches? No system is ingrained in these young kids yet.
I have patience, because now I finally believe that this team is on the right track. We've got solid depth players (I like Gazdic and Joensuu), some beastly wingers, a potential superstar center who is recovering from having major surgery, and I'll say this: below-average backup goaltending as our starters.
The mgmt has picked up Ference, a good player on the back end, Joensuu, maybe one of my biggest surprises this year, and has managed to get 8 points in 8 games out of what I thought to be an ahl career guy. Signed how many dmen, so to make sure that we don't have large gaping holes if a couple go down. Once Gagner comes back, we have a 'problem' at center...cause we don't know who to take out, or demote to lower lines. That's a great problem.
I wanna see this team get an actual bonafide goalie, then see how things go from there. If we can have solid and dependable goaltending and we still suck this bad, then ya... this team needs to figure out its ****.
I don't comment on here much, obviously, but I've been a part of this forum for quite a while, and I know enough that when you post things, Replacement, you add your own agenda to the mix when you're talking. Don't lead in with Hall having a loser's mentality, then show small snippets of quotes and pick each apart. When you start a conversation with that type of message, you're leading people. And you do this often.
Now, I haven't personally met a lot of professional competitors... but there's no way that some of these players are OK with losing. Hell, I am on a dodgeball team in a rec level league and it bothers me when I lose. Things haven't gelled yet, and the team has gone through how many coaches? No system is ingrained in these young kids yet.
I have patience, because now I finally believe that this team is on the right track. We've got solid depth players (I like Gazdic and Joensuu), some beastly wingers, a potential superstar center who is recovering from having major surgery, and I'll say this: below-average backup goaltending as our starters.
The mgmt has picked up Ference, a good player on the back end, Joensuu, maybe one of my biggest surprises this year, and has managed to get 8 points in 8 games out of what I thought to be an ahl career guy. Signed how many dmen, so to make sure that we don't have large gaping holes if a couple go down. Once Gagner comes back, we have a 'problem' at center...cause we don't know who to take out, or demote to lower lines. That's a great problem.
I wanna see this team get an actual bonafide goalie, then see how things go from there. If we can have solid and dependable goaltending and we still suck this bad, then ya... this team needs to figure out its ****.