Canadiens1958
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Better Team, Heart, etc.
Fail to see how the topics of heart, better team and related topics are examples of racism nor how the various comments and replies will eradicate racism in hockey or elsewhere. Then the usual 1972 Summit Series pseudo analysis surface.
Better team on paper analysis. Not worth reading, especially for international hockey since the teams that are selected going into an event are based on performances in a league or against players that for the most part will not be participating. How players from the NHL, Soviet, other European leagues play against each other within their league may be evaluated on paper. How such players and teams will play and fare in a tournament under different circumstances cannot and is pure speculation, media fantasy that attracts attention, fills space but contributes nothing beyond PC type phrases. Problems arise when the media pundits are proven very wrong by the ensuing games. Unable to admit they were wrong, the media further compounds the issue by looking for scapegoats, empty excuses,etc that further their own exposure with no contribution to understanding.
Heart. A typical worker - labourer, has just as much heart as a hockey player. The courage to go to work everyday do a repetitive task or tasks at greater risk - more serious construction worker accidents and deaths than NHL injuries/deaths, require just as much personal discipline as an athlete but the rewards are much lower. Interesting that construction helmets became mandatory on sites around the same time as hockey helmets achieved the same status.
In hockey, heart is one of the politically correct buzz words that mean different things to different people, teams, under changing circumstances. Basic interpretation reveals the level of satisfaction by the user. Within the context of a result the winners team always has more heart, the losers team has less heart.
1972 Summit Series. Great players but featured some of the worst coaching ever. Lack of preparation, poor in game adjustments, poor game to game planning,poor player selection for circumstances(match-ups, etc) you name it and it was lacking on both sides. Canada winning games 6 and 8 in the third period while blowing game 5 in the third period tends to wash. Lack of player discipline on both sides - not talking penalties but straying from team play to individual play is evident on both sides throughout.
The lack or limited success of coaches from both teams post series is ample evidence of their weakness.
Fail to see how the topics of heart, better team and related topics are examples of racism nor how the various comments and replies will eradicate racism in hockey or elsewhere. Then the usual 1972 Summit Series pseudo analysis surface.
Better team on paper analysis. Not worth reading, especially for international hockey since the teams that are selected going into an event are based on performances in a league or against players that for the most part will not be participating. How players from the NHL, Soviet, other European leagues play against each other within their league may be evaluated on paper. How such players and teams will play and fare in a tournament under different circumstances cannot and is pure speculation, media fantasy that attracts attention, fills space but contributes nothing beyond PC type phrases. Problems arise when the media pundits are proven very wrong by the ensuing games. Unable to admit they were wrong, the media further compounds the issue by looking for scapegoats, empty excuses,etc that further their own exposure with no contribution to understanding.
Heart. A typical worker - labourer, has just as much heart as a hockey player. The courage to go to work everyday do a repetitive task or tasks at greater risk - more serious construction worker accidents and deaths than NHL injuries/deaths, require just as much personal discipline as an athlete but the rewards are much lower. Interesting that construction helmets became mandatory on sites around the same time as hockey helmets achieved the same status.
In hockey, heart is one of the politically correct buzz words that mean different things to different people, teams, under changing circumstances. Basic interpretation reveals the level of satisfaction by the user. Within the context of a result the winners team always has more heart, the losers team has less heart.
1972 Summit Series. Great players but featured some of the worst coaching ever. Lack of preparation, poor in game adjustments, poor game to game planning,poor player selection for circumstances(match-ups, etc) you name it and it was lacking on both sides. Canada winning games 6 and 8 in the third period while blowing game 5 in the third period tends to wash. Lack of player discipline on both sides - not talking penalties but straying from team play to individual play is evident on both sides throughout.
The lack or limited success of coaches from both teams post series is ample evidence of their weakness.