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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Yes, it was an excuse for below average performance
Look up excuse in the dictionary
It is an excuse
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excuse noun | ɪkˈskjuːs, ɛkˈskjuːs |
1 a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offence: there can be no excuse for any further delay | the excuse that half the team failed to turn up.
• a reason put forward to conceal the real reason for an action; a pretext: as an excuse to get out of the house she went to post a letter.
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It's quite clear in context that you mean the second definition and not the first, since you are attempting to blame Treliving for his goalie's poor performance. It's quite evident that you think Markstrom is just a bad goalie and that Treliving deserves no credit for signing him, and that his concussion is just an excuse in the second sense – a reason put forward to conceal the real reason why he did not play well.
If you thought Markstrom's performance actually was, you know,
excused by his injury, you would not be holding it against the person who signed him to a contract before he was injured.