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Originally Posted by Bingo
I'd feel so much better about his chances to rebound if he had owned his season at garbage bag day.
His "I did what I came here to do" (paraphrase) speech took all the spit out of my mouth.
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Sure, I get that. But how much correlation should we draw between players' words and actions in the media and their performance on the ice? Brouwer has to be monumentally embarrassed by his performance last year—unquestionably the worst season of his entire professional hockey career. He didn't respond well publicly. But is this because he actually believes in his own rhetoric, or is his rhetoric a lame attempt to deflect the embarrassment?
It could be anything, and I don't put much stock into whether his statements made in public will affect his play on the ice several months after the fact.