It definitely opens up a lot of things that you don't think about before you have a guy like Joe. It affects everybody out there.
I don't know why that is. We focus on that and in the last little while we've had three days between games. We just haven't come out the way we'd like to.
Obviously it was a set play and we didn't react to it well enough.
Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted?
Maybe but we've set it up in a simple way that we dump the puck in and support each other very closely, so even if you are forcing it a little bit, at worst you're just kind of giving it up along the wall.
We've lost a few key guys but there's some good young players in our organization that will fill those spots and we intend on not missing a beat from the last season and maybe getting even a little bit better.
I think the lockout hurt a lot, but I think if we get back and give everyone an appealing product, where rules are called, and let the game's talented players play and show off their skills -- I think we'll attract more fans than maybe we did before the lockout.
It's not too early to start thinking that way.
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