[Bill Meltzer] Sean Couturier: “I’ve been putting the work in for a while. I’ve been struggling, but I’ve been working on my game, and it’s frustrating the way I’ve been treated around here lately. But it is what it is.”
by datyoungknockoutkid
@Philadelphia Flyers
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I can’t remember Couturier ever being this blunt before. Even more surprising for him to be this blunt as the new Captain.
“The way I’ve been treated around here lately” is such an unusual barb from him.
Yeah if I was him I would have just turned down the questions until he was less pissed. He def spoke out emotionally
Go play better then it isn’t that difficult bud. I don’t want Ben Simmons 2.0. Frost could man up and take it so you can you.
If I know Torts at all, this was a test, and Coots failed it. He wants guys to fight back and get in fuck you matches with him. Instead Coots just says I haven’t been told exactly what to improve on, just that Torts needs more from me. How about asking then? How about saying Fuck you Torts, I’m the captain, you’re not benching me. He needs to show a backbone.
Team Coots all the way. Torts did this shit with Farabee last year. Start the season off by commenting on how much time the player missed and how it’ll take some time. Then, despite the player busting their ass to find their form, start pretending like there is no reasonable explanation for their game having peaks and valleys. Difference is Coots isn’t going to walk on all fours and drink his water from a dog bowl for fears of retribution from a coach who will be gone in 2-3 years.
is he saying that about the coaching staff or the media?
I mean he has every right to be frustrated, but at the same time, everyone who has struggled here has been called out. Hayes, TK, Farabee, Frost, Sanheim, Cates, Poehling, Tippett, Atkinson, York… It isn’t exclusive to him and if he really wants to take it personally… That’s on him.