Invictus12
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And that’s because the team had a bull**** defense, their goalies were inconsistent as hell, and you had a couple young players who have been notably lax in their preparation for the level of skill they have (Wings wouldn’t have gotten Mantha at 20 or AA in the fourth if they didn’t have huge question marks in their personalities.)
You can’t rally the troops enough to make up for a sheer lack of talent. The fact that this team was competitive in as many games as they’ve been in the last couple years is astounding. They’ve had three or four players on the ice in the last couple years that weren’t being asked to play at least a line or pairing higher than they optimally should.
“Rallying the troops” like you are saying works in a short series. It works in a short burst of games. Over a whole season? It’s incumbent on the whole roster to keep it together. If a guy tries being a rah rah, look at me guy the whole season, he’ll start to get tuned out no matter who he is if the team keeps losing.
E: and I watched that video... Jesus Christ, they just played a game where they got their **** pushed in and all the players knew it. A rah rah speech wouldn’t do crap in that locker room on that night. That is not good evidence to reflect anything on his leadership. Like he said. That game was them losing and losing because they tossed it away. A “rally the troops” type speech is needed when you have a game where your team played their asses off and the breaks beat the boys. Not where the boys got their asses soundly thrashed
I get what you saying and do myself feel that the speech he gave was just redundant. I'd think he'd been better off telling everyone to stop blaming everyone and focus on what everyone does individually themselves to get this team going. It's also a long season and I think at this point they just couldn't find solutions and frustration just kept bubblimg. Reality is simple, older players aren't what they used to be, younger players haven't tapped their full potential yet (hopefully they will) and the rest are who they are.... So yeah, everyone get your own shit together would be the proper message I'd think and Z certainly displayed that in full on the ice but I do feel too many of the youngsters just don't really get it yet.