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Originally Posted by smiggy77
Purely speculation, maybe in GG's locker room, it's nonchalant and systematic, thus why we all feel the team lacks emotion. But I have zero clue what happens behind closed doors.
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It might be coincidental, but the team played their best hockey of the season after the GG stick throwing incident. Hockey is a game of passion, not just x's and o's. I have previously mentioned that things like motivation and pure will are going to be required for the team to get where it wants to be, only to be told by certain posters that those things only exist in Disney movies. We've all seen enough intense playoff race or playoff hockey to know that teams that find that extra emotional gear often tend to come out on top. The season is a grind and you can't just rely strictly on metrics to see where the chips fall by the year's end, there are times where the team really needs a push -- and often that push needs to come from behind the bench.
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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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