If your captain is throwing shade about another team having structure, playing to it, and saying how many times are we going to do the same thing? He's not really pinning that on himself and his teammates I don't think. From my perspective as a fan, he seems frustrated these 3 games look like more dog shit from the playoffs. The fact he even mentioned the playoffs which was half a year ago for them is telling. Dude probably still feels like shit about that. And what does Cooper continue to do? Make goofy, joking remarks about their effort. Players lose respect for stuff like that. They get pissed, irritated, complacent and so on. This is game three. Previous years I don't remember him sounding like his dog died after 9 periods of hockey. Season just started and his body language looks like game 4 against columbus.