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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Yep, exactly this.
This team has a culture problem, and if the team has a problem with Tkachuk's approach? You give the "C" to Chucky and move on with him as the leader.
C - Tkachuk
A - Andersson
A - Mangiapane
Those are the players I want leading this team going forward. I don't care about being nice to refs or whatever hell - this team needs an enema to drop the non-competitive culture that has been here for far too long. Giordano and Backlund don't do enough to drive a competitive culture, and with this being a year in and year out problem it's time to make actual change.
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I think Dube is competitive, I think Mangiapane is competitive, Andersson too. I also think Gaudreau, Gio and Monahan are. Backlund is as well. But they put their competitiveness into play when it counts more - before the whistle.
I think Tkachuk is sometimes, but I don’t think things like his fit over Muzzin are examples. Those aren’t “I want to win”. Those are “you’ve insulted me”. And like any fits of anger, they lose their impact the more they occur. To me it’s a selfish display, and getting mad that teammates who didn’t see it and were already off the ice didn’t somehow know and rush back on is just weird. He wasn’t hurt, he wasn’t threatened. he was just “disrespected” which IMO is always a stupid saying anyway.