I don't get this spoiled athlete routine. The team won the Presidents trophy last season. You don't forget how to play. If you're mad at the GM, you go speak to the owner. But you don't stop trying out on the ice. You don't get your coach fired because you're mad at the GM. You don't throw a season away by failing to try. That's what's happened here. Complete breakdown in leadership and a failure by so called professionals to be professionals.
Throw in they are not getting the saves from their #1 goalie, and you have trouble, so....................
I hear ya, but NMCs are currency. Goodrow and Trouba were supposed to be compensated with those NMCs and they feel they were ripped off. Fair enough. They can feel that way. I would. The other guys? I agree, the athletes are privileged today. But Drury went dirty on Goodrow and Trouba. THAT is why the team is losing its mojo. A lot of those players signed deals with NMCs as currency. If the team feels like they are getting screwed, and that management has become an enemy and a threat in that regard, I can not say that I blame them. Drury is at fault here. He is the villain. It should be noted that Trouba, Goodrow, Reaves and even Rempe are the 'jam' that this group has always lacked. Drury dispatched them. That alter ego is gone. Exposing the Achilles heel of these extremely talentd, but flawed players. Drury castrated this team.
It's pretty obvious that Kakko knows he's on the block (maybe even wants out), and doesn't give AF anymore about how he's perceived in the locker room.
Sure, but if I'm another team's GM thinking about acquiring him, the quotes he's given today give me pause.
I doubt that. Kakko would've been warranted to give those comments on his two previous scratches as well, but he kept his mouth shut. I don't blame him for finally speaking up, and he probably speaks for a number of the younger players on that roster.
Remember when he was scratched in the playoffs despite playing so well?
Drury was the culture change. Nearly the entire roster was constructed by Gorton. He has fidgeted very little except giving away a few good players for nothing and signing Trochek.
