It seems that for much of this season Syracuse Crunch head coach Ben Groulx has been channeling his inner Herb Brooks when describing his team. If the legendary Team USA coach hadn’t said it first, Groulx would have dropped a “this team doesn’t have enough talent to win on talent alone” quote in one of his pre-game interviews. Since October he has been beating the drum that the Crunch have to outwork every team they play and take advantage of special teams if they want to win more than they lose.
Last week was validation for Coach Groulx’s pragmatic appraisal of his team.