“The fan base wants to see that we’re headed in the right direction,” general manager Ken Holland said. “The record would indicate we haven’t had a very good year. If you dive deeper, we lose a lot of games that are really close. We’re still learning how to win, but we are competitive on a night-to-night basis. The team has been taken over by the younger people — that’s the direction we want to go.
I really want to be snarky here and make fun of Holland for mentioning that the team has been taken over by young people (because most of them will probably start in Grand Rapids next season), but Holland is right when he says the youth is running the show right now.