Hockey Duckie
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We need people willing to lose their shit and not take it anymore. The previous iteration of this franchise had that from top to bottom.
Bob mightve been an asshole who deserved to get fired, but man he did not like losing and we knew it. I don't know one thing verbeek actually stands for. What cronin actually stands for.
I fear we have a bunch of vets taking retirement contracts on the beach and a bunch of kids looking for a leader who doesn't exist.
Verbeek cut our balls off at the 2021-22 TDL. Sent away were Lindholm, Manson, and Des. The veterans Verbeek brought in to replace them don't carry the same weight and leadership.
But this year is the year that Verbeek wanted to speed up the rebuild by bringing in a lot of rookies in Carlsson, Minty, Luneau, and LaCombe. It's all to set up for next season.
Carlsson was gifted the 1C position where as Mac started out at 2LW and had to start off at center as a 4C. LaCombe ended up being Drysdale 2.0 in playing top pairing minutes as a rookie. Verbeek wasn't kidding when he said he wanted the older youths to teach the younger youths... or rather the youths training the rookies. But also Verbeek holding back the captaincy for one of the youths kinda slights all the veterans.
Similarly, the AHL has a plethora of youths and not enough talent to help the youths grow for the past two seasons. And we're going to get even more rookies next season, according to Verbeek.