Where are these Gudbranson comments from??
There seems to be so many cases of unusual “incidents” the last 2-3 years in the room or on the bench that we get just tidbits from that just get brushed of without the CBJ media (or us fans) asking for any type of answer.
I absolutely do not think all of this is a coincidence and absolutely related to both the Laine/Larsen bench argument, and the “subsequent” removal of Tortorella.
"Postgame Media" video posted on CBJ's App after the Buffalo game. At 3:50 - 3:55 mark, you will see Gudbranson state generally that {we need to be lot better in a lot of areas} followed by the precise quote: "We haven't really been practicing the greatest lately..."
I don't know why he said it - thus my conjectured questions in my post...but regardless, the statement does not shed a good light on Lars. Gudbranson was answering general questions about how bad it feels to lose like that, at home, and whether he saw anything that would have predicted last night's meltdown. I can't post it here, but his interview starts at 1:55 and continues to 4:55 ....In context, Gudbranson also said that they were really bad in the 2nd period at Pittsburgh, along with a few more nuggets: "We wasted everyone's time in the building..." "Can't just walk away from this one...This one is going to burn for a while..." He may be a whipping boy on here because of his contract, and his play with the puck makes me crazy, but I liked what I saw/heard in the interview.
In contrast, Larsen's presser was one of almost complete shock; he indicated that he did not see last night coming, that there had been some good signs lately without results, and honestly had the look of zero answers (well, there really aren't any as far as winning hockey games with the group currently assembled, so that may not be a fair observation in some respects). But the juxtaposition of Larsen not seeing any issues leading up to last night's game compared to Gudbranson's interview about not great (I intepret "poor") practices and a tone of almost expecting something like last night.
Let's just say one of the two is missing the boat. As is 95% of the roster. And while there is no question we leave them out to dry more than any other team, our G play is F- to add to the black cloud.
