Or there’s been no expose’ because the real story doesn’t come close to what the TMSFs built it up to in their heads. Sign the big contract in MN and don’t deliver and you’re a slacker and/or a locker room cancer.
I’m sure there’s some truth to that but when then current players, captains, coach, and GM are constantly bringing it up… I’m pretty sure it’s not nothing. Probably more about what they weren’t than what they were.
Foligno circa 2019 (2nd season with Wild)… he came from Buffalo and still thought there was an issue with the Wild leadership.
“It’s got to come from leadership and guys playing the right way and holding guys accountable,” he said. “Right now, we’re just letting things slip away. I wish I had the answers, but at the same time, I think it’s just got to come from leadership. At this point of the season, at this type of playoff push, your leaders have to be your best, myself included, and right now we’re just struggling with it.”