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About fcking time Should honestly be it's own thread though

Honestly always thought it was a myth or at the very least an exaggeration

Found out that piss with asparagus in it really does smell, so there's that

TIL who Jari Kurri is

Outside of the Jets who fits that bill? Edmonton?

This is an abomination to fantasy football

Looking for hockey news like...

Somethings gotta give

I think it's more so the owner to be honest, but I'm sure Waddell doesn't help at all

I feel like way too many times we don't think that athletes are people and not just talents and numbers. The environment someone is in matters, no matter who you are

Hoozah!

You can bring all the talent you want together but if they aren't a cohesive unit they will be beaten by a less talented team/organization that is marginally less talented. It's easier to create a culture than it is to bring in enough talent to overcome a bad one

I disagree, I think those smart, capable individuals who make intelligent decisions create that standard of work. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard

How is cheating associated with culture? They have a standard there that was put in place before they started winning. Why do the Patriots consistently turn out talent in their organization?

I disagree. In every sport there have been tons of talented enough teams to win but they don't, or even winning teams have a bad culture (see Lakers) I think culture helps you supplement and compliment talent; obviously talent is more important and you can win with enough talent and bad culture, but culture allows an organization to replace players much, much more easily, to avoid contract disputes, attract FA, and to squeeze as much as possible out of any given player that you can. I think it's pretty wild to say that culture is some sort of buzzword. The concept of billions of dollars invested in an extremely high profile company having a good culture isn't unfounded

Well how do you start winning then? Culture has to start before winning

Nylander is/will 100% be a bust when/if he doesn't pan out. The fact that our current GM was able to flip him for a prospect that will hopefully not be doesn't change that fact