Dubi Doo
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- Aug 27, 2008
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3 of a possible 12 points. Flushing the season down the toilet in the first month again. Glad I missed yesterday's game. I'll be lucky to hit 10 games this season. Im tired boss!
The bolded parts are very well said. We have players on this squad whose development have been hindered by consistent bad play of the team around them. Those mistakes the players around them made when they entered the league have now crept into their game. Look no further than Dahlin. He's an immense talent. You'll see flashes of greatness, but then you'll see flashes of dumbassery. Bad mistakes or reads that end up in the back of the net. What could have been if he went to a competent team instead of one who changed coaches a bunch of times and has changed the players around him. This is the product you get- a good player who succumbs to the same dumb shit that's plagued this team for a decade +.Yeah, I'm kinda out of ideas and optimism with this group. I'm open to them proving me wrong if they can string together a few wins... but I have to think every team in this league either plays faster/harder than them, or smarter, or both.
I think it's mostly a confidence issue but as long as every single position on this team (F, D, G) will give up the easiest of opportunities and goals every game or every other game, it'll never get better. I'd say they just need to get mad and work through it but you can't really fake confidence in this league.
The worst part is anyone you bring in will succumb to it, since no one or two players (that aren't veteran generational players maybe) will fix a whole team that have sunken this deep. Basically have to move the team, give them a new name, start that playoff drought clock over again.