View Single Post

Old 10-23-2007, 08:53 AM   #5 (permalink)
BE-LEAF-ABLE
Super Moderator
 
BE-LEAF-ABLE's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Gatineau, Quebec
Posts: 6,550
Credits: 148,186.93
BE-LEAF-ABLE has a little shameless behaviour in the past
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Earnhardt
Too many penalties can also be chalked up to coaching just as much as the players.
I'm not sure about that.

I think penalties are an individual thing.

A lot of them comes from either being too lazy, too agressive, or just too slow (a combination in some cases). Some players are just the way they are when it comes to penalties, and I don't think a new Coach will change that.

That's expecially the case with Wade Belak, Bryan McCabe, Nik Antropov, and arguably Mats Sundin to a lesser extent (for example). That's the way they've always been.

It's a matter of which players are worth the trouble that comes along with them, and which players aren't.
__________________
"It's not the way it's going to be. We have to be very, very patient and build this the right way. We have to go through a process. It may be painful. I hope it isn't. But we're prepared for all the bumps and pratfalls and potholes in the road ahead. I'm prepared for it anyway, or I wouldn't have come." - Ron Wilson, Head Coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
BE-LEAF-ABLE is offline   Reply With Quote