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Originally Posted by Dion
Besides the coaching staff there needs to be a change in the culture in the dressing room. We need players that don't quit when the going gets tough.
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I'm not sure I blame the players. How many times this year have they shown up and played a great game and still lost because we couldn't buy a goal? Putting in a great effort and still coming up short is incredibly disheartening, and there's been at least a dozen of those. Once it happens enough times you start second-guessing everything you're doing, or questioning whether it's even worth doing in the first place.
Good teams don't just weather the storm when times are tough, but they also make the most of it when they're going well. It's a lot easier to absorb a soft goal when a 20-shot first period ends at 3-0 instead of 1-0. For whatever reason we can't convert stretches of good play into scoring goals. I think the coaching is the primary culprit, but to me our lack of finish is at the root of everything. IMO "winning culture" is just a label that gets retroactively applied to teams that win, rather than something you can create that then helps you win.