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Originally Posted by transplant99
What?
You seriously believe that a group of 20 men collectively agreed that "well we have 3 more cracks at this, so no big deal if we win or lose" (which was the insinuation of the question) is a "realistic" scenario?
No..its an idiotic question and Boyle was right in dealing with it the way he did and then actually answering that question.
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Who said anything about "collectively agreeing" to anything? They don't have to huddle in the dressing room and say "hey we have three cracks at this" in order to not play with the desperation required.
The fact they were shut out on home ice in an elimination game is pretty solid evidence that they didn't exactly put on their best performance. Questioning whether they might have been a little complacent (which would be perfectly normal) is not a crazy thing to ask.
They didn't show nearly the fight they did in the third period of game 4 when they were down by three. That was a killer instinct. They didn't have it last night.
Anyway, an even better post game performance was the press conference with Sutter. Look it up if you missed it.