Let’s start this out with a hypothetical, shall we?
Imagine you are the coach of a hockey team that desperately needs to win in order to keep its playoff hopes alive. You’re coming off of an emotional win in an unfriendly environment against a division rival that you are chasing for playoff positioning and heading into another unfriendly environment against a division rival that has, on a whole, played terrible hockey for most of the season.
You come out in this game with an effort that could largely be described with many adjectives and superlatives that I am unable to use in my article, so we’ll just describe it as “uninspired.”
How do you respond?
Well, the players very well could have been physically and emotionally tired from t ...
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