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Originally Posted by Voodooman
Are you sure that playing for a team that's pretty much destined for a lottery pick, as opposed to playing for a team with legitimate gold medal aspirations, can be defined as "finding success"? Certainly, Monahan's personal development has been great this year, but what about the importance of instilling a winning culture, and learning to deal with the pressures of high expectations?
It would seem to me that, from an organizational standpoint, there are few expectations at all this year.
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This would be a great argument if Canada had won the WJC recently, but it's hard to establish a winning attitude in a two week tournament that has ended up as a loss for Canada the last several years.