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Under Performing:
- We've under-performed, as of late we've played better. It's a difficult league to chase in. Trying to stabilize certain situations and breaking it into smaller bites.
- Gave up too many grade A chances.
- Did not create enough.
- We preach as a staff is: you learn a lot about people during downtime.
- As painful as it is, you learn a lot of adversity of who will go through it and make an impact or others who shrug their shoulders and accept the loss.
- We have to do things for a longer period of time. This will give us success.
- People who have out-played from last year or are better is a very small list.
- One shift at a time is how they are approaching it.
- We need to work on everything one by one. Continue to play defense. Focus on special teams.
- We know the team is better than the record is showing.
On the last few games:
- As a team we've been cutting down the grade A chances. We've tightened up much better, and the team effort has let us generate more from others and haven't relied on one or two people.
- Still a long way to go for where they want.
- Our special-teams haven't been performing.
- This is an everyday league and you need to prove yourself.
- Game in NJ was the first time we had a lead and won with it.
TJ Brodie:
2-7-0 without TJ Brodie
5-5-1 with TJ Brodie
- Brodie does a lot of things. Very important person. Ability to make others better. Move the puck very well. Defending is moving the puck and less time defending; this is what TJ does. Closes plays off, makes Mark Giordano smarter. Ability to get out of trouble and creates offense.
- Injuries of a player should not reflect how well/bad a team plays.
- We need to find a way to win regardless of injuries.
Trade Talk:
- You always want to help your team win they are under performing.
- Communicate with players and coaches on what should change.
- Easiest answer is, lets trade Player A and trade for Player B. It's not that simple, especially when its a down-turn or when they are not playing good.
- We can trade players tomorrow if we wanted, but that's going to hurt us in the long run.
- Matter of not making a deal, but finding the ones that help make your team better.
- It's difficult to make trades in the cap-era and how the contracts play into the future.
- Recipe for disaster to trade away your problems.
- We look at every trade and it's impact for the future.
- We will not trade for 35+ veterans that will impact us for the next two weeks. Our focus is how someone will help us today, and into our long range plans.
- Is there a trade that will help us now? We have to look how it will financially and impact our future.
- We will not look at the expense of our top assets and top young players for something that makes you feel good for a week.
Injuries:
- Jonas Hiller has practiced and next week he should be able to play games
- Lance Bouma has been progressively better then expected and quicker but is still a long ways.