I think McDavid and Nurse will change this, they are big time team guys who look after all their teammates, not just a small group of them.
Leon is the same way I think.
Culture change is coming, but Todd McLellan is the most important part of it. Chiarelli won't put up with bull **** either.
We've got a lot of young guys known and renowned for their leadership... even guys like Lander.
Our team has been terrible... nobody has been doing their job well (yet).
Once guys find their role... and find success as a team, then role players will be valued... once that happens our "elite talent" and "role players" will find themselves on more equal footing, with more mutual respect, regardless of age or skill.
It's been that way on any team since the dawn of time.
I mean just think of it... if you are a vet checking center, and your job is to shutdown the other team, when are you more valued... when you are protecting a 1 goal lead or chasing one? And if in the first period, a young star player bungles his coverage and you are scored on, what happens? Young player gets TOLD. And then you hold the score tight until the third, young player doesn't score... and you go out in the third and Thornton scores on you. Imagine the unspoken exchange when you go back to the bench and young player looks your way.
Do you feel like going out for a chummy beer after the game if you are the vet checking center?
Over time, losing alienates you from your team-mates... there is only one solution.
