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Originally Posted by Cali Flames Fan
You basically said we wouldn't be under .500. That means you think we would have won those two games with Sven in the lineup. I didn't make anything up there.
If you were to ask me who showed more effort: Jackman tonight vs. Sven in Chicago, I would have said Jackman easily tonight. Talent potential aside, we can't have players coasting. If you want to compare Sven vs. Glencross, we can do that, but I hate comparing Sven to Jackman. It's just not an apt comparison.
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No, I didn't.
I said, and I 100% stand behind it, that benching Sven (twice!) on a team where you preach hard work and merit, while letting "veterans" ( I used quotes last time to... yeah, sarcasm ) coast is sending a demoralizing message. I also said that both times Sven was benched lead to horrid losses, which frankly is simple fact.
I mentioned 500 in response to dino's attempt to paint this team as worse than it is.
More to the point, I live in Toronto, where I have seen this behavior from the Leafs time and time again... it doesn't send a message to the young talented players, other than "#### this place". Sven is by no means a superstar, but he is also not the goat the coaching staff like to paint him as. If they keep this #### up, we piss away an asset for no good reason, with no good returns, while at the same time making the whole "work hard, get rewarded" ethos a complete crock of ####.