Warsofsky on Sharks’ Late Loss, Walman’s Game, Vanecek Update

On 12.17.24

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  1. Sharks lost a key element of their team chemistry when Mike Grier traded Blackwood, and so there should be a shock to the team performance and period of adjustment. Winnipeg Jets played like a Stanley Cup contender, and dominated with their passing game and power play. Jets have great skill at every position and even push around skill that was able to shake the Sharks' confidence. The "killer instinct" that Sharks need to develop according to Coach Warsofsky is a metaphor for a complex of team habits that minimize mistakes, penalties and bad hockey plays at crucial times when it could lose the game and habits that are opportunistic in making their opponents make more mistakes, take more penalties and screw up their timing. I suppose also that it refers to the ability to finish the job, score quickly when the opponent is pressing with an empty net so that the game is put out of reach, the ability to eat up time and control the puck so that they cannot score any more. Nietzsche would say it is just another form of the will to power, or the instinct to win over nature and dominate your life conditions.

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