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Originally Posted by calgarywinning
It also has a big thing to do with the culture of winning. A culture of losing can set serious mould on an organization.
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Culture of winning and culture of losing sounds a lot like astrology to me.
Where is Colorado's culture of winning now?
How are Columbus and NYI possibly in playoff positions? They have losing cultures!
Good teams win because they have more good players then bad teams. I don't think its much more complicated then that.
Pretty much anyone that has played hockey their entire lives has played on a bunch of winning and losing teams. If the "culture" was what enabled teams to play well, don't you think managers wouldn't have keyed in on what culture makes succesful teams by now and enacted that in evey dressing room around the league?
If you follow the NHL fairly closely, doesn't it seem pretty clear that nearly every team has much of the same culture anyway?
Rookie dinners, dressing room pranks, hat/belt/coat/etc for player of the game, bag skates, practice fights, breaking season down into "X" game segments, good in the room/glue guys, bars, puck bunnies, rookies living with veterans, kicking ball around pregame warmup, don't put jersey on the ground, don't walk on team logo, etc etc.
You could write 50 articles about team culture, and if you omitted the names and locations, you would never pick out which team is which.