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Originally Posted by slcrocket
It kind of does if those dumb penalties are a result of being over-aggressive in trying to be truculent. We are #2 in team fighting majors in the NHL, and #2 in roughing minors - I would argue those would be the two penalties most related to over-truculence.
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How ironic that we rank high in fighting majors but seem to lose every fight that we're dragged into. Other teams obviously know our weakness and have exploited it.
Team toughness (or lack thereof) is a character issue. Character issues can't be fixed and must be traded away. Smith knows this when he said after post-game it was "sad" that a non-regular roster player like Glass had to answer the bell and that "the team needed" more player like him. Needing more players like him = getting rid of players with less heart that abound on the team.