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Originally Posted by taxbuster
Well hopefully they get their practices in over the next few days. I assume one day will be a day off (tomorrow?) then Monday and Tuesday heavy practices towards the game on Wednesday. Will be interesting to see how they handle the sloppy play going forward.
Frustrating team to me: they can play awesome hockey when they're engaged fully and on the hunt...but they seem to need to be supercharged by a goal or something first so that they get going. They just don't seem to be able to get fired up on their own. Puzzling.
We've seen that a bit over the last few games...kinda behind, playing OK, but not well, then needing a goal, score and just turn on the jets.
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Maybe the question is how do top teams become consistently engaged, motivated? Do we need some guys, giving big hits, starting fights? is it a problem specifically with one or 2 lines. I think the coach can only do so much but there must be some ways to get them more engaged? I think I recall Darryl Sutter giving players specific goals, or tasks during games; Pretty sure he followed those up with some high expectations if they fell short!