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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
I think one of the myths of that era is that the team was hard-working.
I found them to be both bad and lazy.
Sure there were guys on the 3rd and 4th lines giving it their all every night - but that's the case an almost every team.
But the so-called star players were soft and lazy - guys like Cassels, Bure, Fatty, Housley, Nylander, Savard and yes Theo either didn't commit off the ice, or on it.
It is no wonder they sucked so hard - they didn't have talent and the talent they did have was lazy.
Things got better when they started to bring in guys from other organizations who helped changed the culture - Warrener, Yelle, Conroy, etc.
In some ways the same thing needs to happen again.
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They also weren't as bad as many remember as they never Oiler/Islander bad they just kept missing the playoffs never finishing low enough to draft top 5. They suffered mostly from poor depth/goaltending and a lack of veteran leadership in the locker room.