Yeah, this is pretty telling.
Remember Lucic almost quit over Peters approach.
So hard ass coaches aren't alike. This doesn't sound like Lucic putting up with Darryl becuase thats Darryl. Darryl's mind games and motivational tactics work and have worked, but there is a method behind his madness, he backs it up with hockey IQ and sounded like proper game management in theroy.
But his style isn't for everyone, some players had their mind made up and didn't buy in, and if there was a faction (there was) pushing for him to go, certainly doesn't sound that Lucic was on that side of the room.
Huska will have his work cut out for himself in properly motivating the room and buying in to the good guy coach...hopefully Conroy gives him a helping hand by moving some of the roster out that didn't like their feelings hurt by the last coach.
It's shown before that this team, many still on the roster, took a mental vacation when Ward was brought back as coach after the Dallas series loss, and the team wasted that next season (and a year of prime JG SM and MT) as a result.
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