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Originally Posted by Ark2
The man wilts under pressure. If we ever wish to entertain the idea that we become a good team again some day, I really see no way that it happens with Bouwmeester playing big minutes. Maybe if his role gets scaled down and he becomes a secondary guy it could work, but I would just as soon see him gone. Don't like his compete level, don't like the way he seems to accept losing.
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I think he has a very soft personality, you bring up a very good peripheral observation. It is very evident in interviews that he has an introverted nice guy personality. This is why he seems to accept losing and why his compete level tends to seem low, lets not forget he is the reigning ironman in the NHL. You know playing at this level that he has probably played hurt more than we know. Thats not a sign of low compete level.
However your opinion and observation is good and most certainly still stands. Jay Bowumeesters type of personality needs to have someone to gravitate towards and motivate / inspire them. You put him alongside a leadership personality like Mark Messier and watch him perform like you never seen him play.
Calgary as a whole is too soft and that I agree, they need some real hard nose leaders to inspire the good players on our team that well need inspiring.
Unfortunately we just traded our greatest leader away!...which of course we had to and I wish him the best of luck in his quest for the cup.