Disclaimer: Baseless, opinionated rant ahead. Proceed with caution.
Hi. Let’s talk about professional athletes and their ‘attitudes’.
From news outlets to blog posts to comments sections…. to former coaches, you will always find people disparaging the attitudes and commitment of Colorado Avalanche players, especially their stars. How they need to ‘learn how to win’, ‘step up’, or any other mantra that puts the responsibility on individual players, not the system.
Before we begin, there are certainly merits to that way of thinking. Some players can be locker room issues, some can be off-ice distractions, and others can have too massive of egos to coexist with a coach.