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Originally Posted by cannon7
Gulutzan is basically telling his players "you're going to bend or break: your choice." Adaptations will not be made, as doing so would be an admission that the coaching staff doesn't know what it is doing. The three Rs are: reinforce, reinforce, reinforce.
I mean what else can be taken away from an impromptu practice where the lines and pairings are EXACTLY the same?
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Its Brent Sutter all over again. I really can't stand when coaches are so rigid with implementing an air tight system and expect it to be executed perfectly. They seem to enforce the idea of playing not to lose instead of playing to win. Yes, have a strategy, but how can you totally discount the fluidity, creativity and instinctiveness involved in the game?
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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