Craig Button on Vancouver based talk show Donnie and Dhali talking about the Rangers instilling the kind of grit that Sathers alluded to. Paraphrasing, teams have to not hide or worry about instigator penalties, if you feel the need to deal with something or start something, you don't worry about the instigator, we'll kill it off. A tougher mentality is something that has to be instill over time and the players have to develop that.
This is something that needs to change with the next coach. Quinn is too strict with his course. Lemieux over the years became more and more timid because of that "unnecessary" penalty in scrums. Kakko and Gauthier benched more than a few times for fairly routine penalties. Smith benched and scratched because of that style, until the players, team, and owner were embarrassed then all of a sudden he's golden boy reserved for fighting Tom Wilson. The softness in this team is not necessarily the way the players are or the way the roster is built as Quinn claims. It's the weak leadership from Quinn that took the instinct to be salty and mean out of the players.
