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Originally Posted by Yrebmi
Flames players react. LINK
Doesn't sound like they took it overly seriously. |
Remains to be seen how the players react to it...
sure, it may very well have been staged and is cliche... not unlike the train ride and airing of grievances last year after the Montreal game over beers...
that seemed to work to some degree.
the bigger issues is the disconnect between GG and the team in terms of simple things like effort and being sharp/engaged in practice...which bleeds into games, where the flames seem to be sleepwalking for the first 10 minutes...sure GG takes some blame, but the players are grown men too. Seriously, Do Your GD Job... you're a bubble team, not on top of the Western Conference.
Effort and Urgency and being sharp in practice should not be something GG has to beg for...
whether it's GG, his methodology, his system or the attitude of the players ie entitlement/lack of effort and focus/leadership, there appears to be a bit of a rift...
you can't fire the team, but at the same time there zero guarantees that any new coach will be able to motivate this roster any better than GG, especially if this is a player culture issue.