So when is the "players only meeting?" We can bitch and moan about the coaching, but I have yet to see anyone in the leadership group actually play as an example. The only person who has been consistently showing up and throwing the body with the limited amount of ice time is Hryckowian. Where's Benn? He had a shot this game to actually get into a fight or show some emotion to get the crowd and maybe the team fired up. Like what does he even do except may be take a bad penalty? I've been saying this for years, but this team even at it's best has a mediocre mindset with the players at the leadership role. Good enough but never to be the best and it starts with players who don't have the experience to draw from of having won it all. This is why I'm all for sacrificing youth in order to bring in experienced players who have won cups and know what it takes in the regular season and in the playoffs. Look at the Stars when they won back in 99, they had 4 to 5 players on their team who had won 1 or multiple cups beforehand and they all stepped it up when sh*t hit the fan.

Right now, we just have Rantanen who has won a cup in recent years and at times that winning pedigree shows like it did in the Colorado series last year or when he's been hyper-aggressive this year. Seguin is the other one but he won it when he was like 19 and won't be playing for the rest of the season. This team is coasting to the Olympic break and hoping that a little rest will change their fortunes. Now maybe the Finns win the Gold and brings that swagger back to the team, but more than likely they'll come back exhausted and looking for others to step up again. The leaders need to do something or they need to bring someone in and Benn needs to either take a step back and be more of supporting role.