I think everything that is wrong with that team in the locker room is apparent from the outside. The identity their "leadership" pushes on the team isn't tough, it's dirty. It must be really hard to built unity around that brand, hence why their players aren't into it (visible with Lucic, Gudreau), or better yet requesting trades. It must feel like absolute dog shit when your "game plan" is too cross check the other team in the back as much as possible, while going after the opponent's smaller players and trying to avoid their equally sized ones.
That's a recipe for bad moral. That's not trash talk, that's a fact, nobody wants to be on the team where tkatchuk is the identity. When Avery and Lemieux played for teams, they were one offs, they weren't leaders, and this is why.
He did. That is officially worse than chop wood.
