From what I saw of this team this season. Players were given multiple opportunities in numerous situations to take the bull by the horn and run with it to improve their standing.
Outside of Toffoli, Tanev, Backlund, Dube, Pelletier, Duehr, Gilbert they pretty much all shot the bed.
Lindholm, Anderson, Lewis and Zadorov also have had good seasons and showed up each game.
But Huberdeau, Mangiapane, Markstrom, Vladar, Hanifin, Kadri, Ruzika, Weegar, Coleman, Lucic should all buy big mirrors in the offseason and spend a lot of time looking into them. You’re getting paid millions of dollars to play hockey. The people that are paying you want production in return. Not excuses.
The fans do too.
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