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Rangers Need ‘Tiger Woods’ Mentality
by Paul on 12/11/08 at 09:08 AM ET
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from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,
“We had a players-only meeting on Monday in which we discussed the need for each individual to be prepared to play, because if we’re not prepared individually, we can’t succeed collectively,” Steve Valiquette told The Post following last night’s 3-2 overtime victory over the Thrashers on Scott Gomez ’ put-back at 0:18.
“We’ve had too many first periods in which we’ve had too many passengers who just haven’t been into it, and if there’s one passenger on the ice, then five players are messed up. We talked about how we needed to get back to basics, how each player had the responsibility to be prepared before coming to the rink.
“You can’t just show up and skate. Tiger Woods doesn’t just show up and hit off the first tee. He does put an immense amount to prepare himself before each round, and that’s the same mentality we have to have before each game,” said Valiquette. “We’d gotten away from what we’d been doing early in the year when we were winning so many games….”
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