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Despite being 2-1-0 and having won the Stanley Cup and President's Trophy last season and adding Marian Hossa and Ty Conklin to an already stacked lineup, Coach Mike Babcock said that the Red Wings are just one of the pack chasing the NHL elite.
"It's pretty apparent to me when you look at the league right now, San Jose and the Rangers are the class of the league," said Babcock. "They're both 4-0 or 5-0 or something like that. They must be the class of the league. The rest of us are catching up."
Really?
"It's pretty apparent to me when you look at the league right now, San Jose and the Rangers are the class of the league," said Babcock. "They're both 4-0 or 5-0 or something like that. They must be the class of the league. The rest of us are catching up."
Really?
posted by Chuck Pleiness at
2:49 PM
2 Comments:
Babcock is CLEARLY digging for motivation, and he's trying anything he can. He doesn't want these guys getting complacent at all and wants them to have something or someone to shoot for.
We saw this all last year, prior to the February from Hell. He kept trying to pull out different things for motivation, and eventually the injury bug hit and it served as a massive motivator.
I think this attempt at pegging these other teams as "class of the league" and saying they're chasing it misses the mark.
Or maybe he's just being humble and giving credit to opponents. Stop reading so much into everything that gets said.
As Scotty Bowman has always said, you can't really judge how well a team has been doing until they hit the 20-game (quarter season) mark.
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