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All joking aside. JR tried it. We know from a hockey standpoint it didn't work out. Love the guy. Classy as all can be. Good teammate. But hockey is about winning at the end of the day and while he brings a lot of attributes to an organization and the locker room, he doesn't help this specific team win the Cup.
Thus... HUGE props to JR for trying it, not being stubborn, and moving on from it. Huge props. That's not easy to do in the NHL. We see it so often from so many coaches/GMs.
He did what JR wanted him to. Sid/Geno/Phil have been largely injury free this season (knock on tree) and I can't recall many instances of teams trying to goon it up with us.
Was that Reaves doing? Who knows. Our powerplay is a pretty huge deterrent at this point as well.