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Originally Posted by Stewie G
The Caps soundly beat quality team in Detroit and Philly and some seemed to begrudingly accept that perhaps BB has started to see the light. Can anyone explain then why they suddenly seemed to have reverted back to their lacksadical and unstructured play? I doubt BB told them to loaf it and just skate aimlessly around. Perhaps the players are a bigger part of the problem than some here are willing to admit.
Just as a disclaimer, I wanted BB gone at the end of the year too, but I can't see this recent slide being solely his fault. Perhaps he had less of a hand in the success at the beginning of the year too, but the players need to be held accountable too.
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Long season in a league where the best team usually wins only a little over 50 games. Compare that to the NBA where the teams with the best record usually win over 60. In fact over the last 2 years the NBA has produced 21 teams that have won 50 or more games. NHL has produced 4 in that same time span.