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Originally Posted by shutout
You dont just jump from Good to GREAT.
Try taking small steps and go from good to being better.
All you have to do is keep improving and you will eventually get there.
No magic way to just become great. But staying where you are and doing nothing is definantly not the way to get better.
The core of this team has issues.
There are enough young pieces that they can continue to be competitive.
If you swap out pieces of the core that are providing this mediocrity you will be better. Lateral swaps, change of scenery trades, even getting back less because of a better contract or a hungier player are all small steps to help the franchise get better.
Start by changing the culture.
Whoever the leadership group (Giordano, Backlunc, Gaudreau) that told Tkachuk that he should tone down his game and not let things get out of control should all be moved. Sends a terrible message to the team.
Tkachuk should be moved because he did nothing but pout about it. If he was going to be the new leader of the team he should have stepped up and said up yours we need to be playing with more passion and be getting involved more instead of sitting idly by with his tail between his legs hugging his big paycheck like a teddy bear.
Team has the talent to complete with most teams if they are prepared, give a crap, and are skating and pushing the play. The fact that they dont do so means it is mostly a character, heart, and mental problem. Any changes at this point in time to those four players means that the team will be better.
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Chucky is an emotional guy that plays with an edge/emotion. I dont know that I would expect someone like that to not take it personally. He is still a young insulated young man that's probably used to sunshine being shot up his butt his whole life.
To be fair to him, I know if a co-worker piped up on a conference call in front of the rest of the National Team at work and reprimanded me infront of everyone my first reaction wouldn't be to suck butts and eat the #### sandwich either (depending on how constructive the criticism is of course). If your going to tell him to tone it down it needs to be done subtly. With out knowing how it was said or in front of who, or by who, who knows if he overreacted or if his team mates are just schmucks?
Would you happily continue going to war for those guys after that? (pure speculation of course). but who knows maybe he was taken aside and they told him in the most powder puff way and he still got mad we will never know.