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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
For me, the team's response was quite telling. They follow up that show of emotion from their coach with some of the best hockey they've played under his reign. Now this is a group clearly starving for some emotion, passion again and they aren't getting it from the staff or leadership group nearly enough. The "it's just another game" rhetoric is getting old. Hockey is meant to be a passionate and intense game.
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It can't just be on the coaches to provide that.
And I think Gio is a guy that does step up in big games and clearly gives an eff.
Tkachuk is another.
But at some point it has to come from within, or you have to start asking if that fire in the belly actually exists.