One And Done – Rangers @ Maple Leafs Post Game Thoughts…

What makes a good team a great team? It’s not just about having multiple extended winning streaks. That’s important for sure, but it’s not the most important thing. To me, the most important thing is to minimize losing streaks. You are going to lose. The Russians lost to a bunch of kids from Minnesota and Wisconsin in 1980, any team can lose on any given day. What separates the pretenders from the contenders are the ability to stop losing streaks in their tracks right away. You don’t allow 1 loss to balloon into 4, 5, 6, 7 losses in a row. Or else it takes a Herculean effort to right that wrong. A 5 game win streak followed by a 5 game losing streak is still just .500 hockey after all. That’s the most impressive thing about this team, and really, if not for a nightmare travel schedule to star the season the may have had an even better record than what they have now. Who gets the credit? The same guy I semi-ripped into in my last writeup. Coa...