For all of those people shrugging this off as "just preseason", Gully is not taking it lightly. He said that he thinks the team is just expecting that results will come without having to work for them.
I recall a similar storythe year we ended up drafting Matt Tkachuk. We made the playoffs the year before by working our asses off every game, and over the summer somehow decided we were talented enough to coast to the playoffs. Obviously, we were (and are) not.
We make the playoffs then add Hamonic and evidently this team thinks its good enough to coast and still get results.
This team has been 100% listless and lazy this preseason and the results show it. For a team that has won one season opener since the 2004-05 lockout, it's completely inexcusable. I would currently bet a large chunk of change that we're going to be embarrassed by the Oilers next week as I have seen absolutely nothing in the last 12 years that suggests this team knows how to get ready for the start of a season.
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