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Old 11-07-2016, 11:36 AM   #96
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher View Post
It does seem curious that Gaudreau is having all these problems now, and he didn't with his college coaches, Hartley, the WHC coaches, and with McLellan at the World Cup. Maybe all those other coaches just let him play his game and GG is the first to try to impose a system with defensive responsibility on him. I don't know. But he's been productive with a bunch of different coaches and systems before.
I do agree with Burke when he mentions how a player sometimes behaves after signing their first big deal and I think thats what we're seeing with Johnny. In the example(s) you noted above he never had the weight of big money expectations on him.
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