Bender said:
Highlander said:
Its called "Fat Cat Syndrome" and it affects those who reach a certain if not elevated stretch of success, you work, the rewards go up, you invest in new business which take your time and energy and all of a sudden you forget what brought you to the ball. Its a mental focus and I just watched Shannohan today in the conference and was directly affected by his focus. This is a no bull#$#% no surrender fellow and believe me, that "Tings are gonna change".
By Randy?need any help with the granite slab you placed at the locker room door? Hate to have that tied around your neck on the way down.
How does this have anything to do with motivation? That's absolutely preposterous if you ask me. It seems so disingenuous to me when you have mounds and mounds of actual data that presents the team as one that has a coach that has completely nosedived on possession and defensive systems, along with a number of players who, quite frankly, are not that good at creating any kind of offense.
Some need to go, but I really don't think it's for a lack of effort or buy in. These players aren't idiots, and didn't, as a group, just decide they collectively forgot how to play hockey.
How many players are honestly happy and not frustrated having to ride the pine if they play poorly?
And how many times since before Sundin even left that the leafs lacked an identity and a strong compete level.
And you go on about
money reducing motivation? Come on. If this were
true EVERY player in the league would be coasting. Ad nauseum execuspeak
is all this is. Players play for their pride and their legacy, the feeling of winning
instead of constantly getting the feeling of getting trampled on all the time.
I agree that the Leafs have lacked an identity (& character) since Sundin left.
Now, the part about the money & motivation? Well, let's just
say this: many of the better as well as best players in the
league such as Crosby, Stamkos, Price, Pietrangelo, et al, all
make a gigantic amount of money playIng the game they love,
Yet in spite of the big contracts, they want to be better and top
themselves each time, season after season, whatever. It's
pretty obvious here that many top players with huge salaries
aren't " coasting". And it's also pretty obvious that once again,
attitudes are more important than facts.
The fact of the matter remains that many of the top players
collect sizeable paycheques, yet their level of play, their
attitudes that holds all of that is refreshing.
True that there are the coaches and management that know what they're doing with their teams, how to relate to their
players, from those behind the bench on up. Still, it's up in the
end to the individual to have the proper capacity to elevate
themselves to what and where they want to be.
Can we say the same things about our Leafs, with the way things have gone?
