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Originally Posted by Table 5
Jooris is one of those guys who only works out if he leaves it all on the ice every game because he's scared of being cut. Last year, he seemed to lose this all-out rabid energy, and you were left with a fairly average bottom-rung player who was ripe for being replaced.
A guy like Hathaway seems to have the same level of hunger...let's see if he can keep it.
While perhaps to a lesser extent, Bouma and Ferland are playing in similarly dangerous waters.
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You also have to wonder how much of some of that was Hartley who both had his favourites, and, preached so much about not taking penalties that some of these guys seemed to lose the intangibles that got them here.
Jooris was one of the best players in the pre season two years ago and played very well when returning from injury.
Not saying a Hartley held them back from being superstars but there was a lot of guys who didn't like his style. So we will see for guys like Bouma and Ferland, what they have or what they don't in fairly short order. Goes for a lot of guys from the last couple years.