Behind Enemy Lines
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Koskinen is the only one who has been thrown under the bus, and it was the head coach who did it. That's tough to come back from
That was so overdone. We have no context for the day to day relationship between the coach and the player. A bad soundbite that had truth in it. Koskinen has come back fine. Just won two big games for this team and coach. Unfortunately the hard reality is goaltending is a massive problem with Smith going down and Koskinen who's maybe a below average back-up has to carry the mail.
How the players respond to stuff like this is all that matters. Everyone in that room dusted it off and moved on to the task at hand of winning the next game(s). Ex-pros like Strudwick and others brushed it off as a minor blip. That's the context I look for, not exploitative media looking for clickbait or a white hot fanbase looking for blood.
These are pro athletes at the elite of their profession. They have all survived substantive criticism and adversity to get to that level.