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Originally Posted by MillerTime GFG
Sorry dude, but you’re straight up wrong. There’s a reason so many professional coaches say “lack of effort”. You’re not in a position to brush it off as a cliche, unless you think you know more than they do? These guys have been in the game for decades, and most of those years being spent with the elite of the elite.
Do you think Monahan plays the game as hard as Buddy Robinson? Ritchie? Tanev? Ronaldo? JG as hard as those guys? No, they play differently. Monny and JG have a different skill set that got them to the show. Those other guys got there on hard work. Rene Borque...another great example.
Guaranteed you ask any professional athlete if there are guys they’ve played with that lack effort, 100% of them would answer with a “yes”. 100%.
I’m sure I’ll get roasted as being “one of those guys”, but I’ve played another sport at a high level, including a (very) short professional stint, and I can say in certainty there were guys on my team that had all the talent in the world, but lacked work ethic and had a low GAF metre.
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Did any of those guys make the NHL? No because you don’t get there by not giving effort.
Sure every player has a game or two here or there where they aren’t giving it there all or giving 100% but there is no way that they have looked this lifeless for 17 games now because of a lack of effort.
And it’s crazy how this lack of effort seems to have infected all 23 players on this roster plus any call ups all at once for 6 weeks now. Maybe there could be something else going on that’s causing them to all look lazy...maybe a way they are being told to play.
It is a huge cliche because it’s the easiest to say “We aren’t working hard enough” . It’s tough to explain a system or to talk about how your lacking confidence, or to say that your reacting instead of anticipating.
Much easier to say “We just need to keep working harder, and get the pucks in deep, and the bounces will come”. Total BS Cliche that means absolutely nothing.