And those are the exact voices he needs to not give a shit about. Not ignore, it's impossible to fully ignore. You need to not care what those guys thinks because how he is doing it is how he knows he needs to.
yeah it's just funny that people took elvis literally saying "i do not care about the haters" as him somehow saying that he actually does care about the haters simply because he mentioned them.
there was also the reddit comment that was like "wow look at all these times he's said the same thing" but didn't point out that the interviews were actually pretty different:
- the first was from december and was basically him saying "i suck right now" and talking about how he thinks about the haters all the time
- the second one (late feb) came after he strung together a few good games and was talking about how he felt like himself again during those games
- the third one was from his exit interview where he said he was going to work hard this offseason (literally every player says this)
- the fourth one was from the middle of the offseason and was him saying that he felt his hard work was paying off (physically)
- this most recent interview was about his mindset and that he was tuning out the outside noise – a stark contrast from the first two interviews where he kept talking about wanting to prove everyone wrong
just kinda funny that this interview (which reads
very differently from the others) got spun by the fans as being identical to the others. it's just discourse for the sake of discourse at this point.
If he is really in that mindset, I think he will have a big year. I haven't had a chance to watch CBJ pre-season games to know how he is playing but I will be watching a lot of games with you guys this year and I am excited to see how he does.
i know elvis was really close with legace (how could they not be after what happened?) but i do think that the coaching played a bigger role than most realize in terms of his decline.
when elvis first got here, he was CHAOTIC in the net, but
very effectively so. he would aggressively play pucks and leave his crease and challenge the shooters. he wasn't thinking; he was
playing. last year he let in a lot of soft goals where he either lost focus or was overplaying an angle or didn't react fast enough.
i think they coached a lot of the aggressiveness out of his game (or tried to) and that caused him to get in his head and think too much about technique, lose focus, or play too tentatively. factor in the kivi trauma and the pressure from the haters and the fact that it was the first time in his life he's really struggled in the net, and it's not hard to see how things could spiral.
that's not to say that he's going to revert to his old form this year, but i don't think a turnaround was possible with legace as the goalie coach.
