holland, saying he was fine with how woodcroft held players accountable: "i think it gets to be a little more difficult when you have a 21-man roster, than a 23-man roster. for the most part, almost every game, we can only dress the players that are healthy. when you have a 23-man roster, 14, 7, and 2, you can healthy scratch some forwards, you can healthy scratch a defenceman. we haven't had that at our disposal because of the salary cap, and the decisions that i made on the team in the off-season. that's one tool the coaches use that wasn't at jay's fingertips. certainly, you see in some games, players sit out for half a period, or a period to get their attention. woody and i did talk about that, so it's not like we haven't talked about that. obviously, he didn't do it, and i was fine with it. i understood the reasons why, and we wet over.
it hasn't been one, it's been these consistent mental, i call them 'boo-boo's,' they're mental mistakes. you can play, do lots of good things, then all of a sudden you have one mental mistake, a bad-pinch, a bad turnover, and it's in the net and it's not only the one goes on the board, it's what it does to your whole team. it's like drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. it probably was something that we had going on again last year — i guess i'm talking the defensive aspect of the puck — then we brought in ekholm, i think we finished the ninth-best team in the league in goals against.
now, we're kind of back to drip, drip, drip. i don't really know if that's on jay, or woody. obviously, we made a coaching change and i'm hoping with the coaching change there's going to be less of those mental mistakes."
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