BobRouse
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- Mar 18, 2009
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What I am saying is that ambition and heart can be exhibited for short durations.
Example: television initially rejected hockey: whenever the networks would attempt to televise a game, the weaker teams would grind the game out in order to avoid embarrassment.
Now, they'd still lose, but they'd lose by 3-1 or 1-2- to nothing, rather than being blown out, and embarrassed in front of family and friends on national television.
This, as many here observed during Hunter's tenure as coach, is not exactly fun to watch for the general audience.
There is but a fine line in athletic ability between professional athletes in any sport, and this can be hidden easily by short duration encounters. It's heart and ambition that separates the winners from the losers. That is the X factor.... the veiled difference.
Frankly, be honest....you know this.
Not following...so you are saying that a team that plays lower scoring games exhibits more heart than a team that plays higher scoring games?
The Caps had a ton of heart under Hanlon then. They would lose snoozefest 2-1 or 3-2 games consistently.
Bruce Boudreau took over (with the EXACT same team) and we actually won games but would lose the occassional 5-4 game or the 4-0 in Chicago. No heart.
Quite frankly I just think you are trying to find a fold in the space-time continium to justify bashing the Caps from another dimension....