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Originally Posted by zamler
Let me get this straight. The fans have to think differently and if they do the team will play better.
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As a fanbase we do need to evolve past the fixation on theatrics and physicality and not being tankers. The most successful teams are what Canadian fanbases would consider "soft" and most of those teams tanked for high picks like Stamkos, Hedman, Malkin, Crosby, Toews, Kane - all picks higher than anything we have had.
Even the Big Bad Bruins and the Kings moved away from the model our fanbase chased... the fanbase was so desperate for a Milan Lucic type they applauded Lucic Lite in Brouwer. Yet the teams that let the actual Lucic go have evolved while the team that signed the actual Lucic has done a 180.
Yet this fanbase is still calling for more toughness. Despite us being 2nd in the league in fights.