“Guys have to understand that the way they’re helping the team is a lot of times well beyond producing points,” Blashill said. “We reward points in pretty much everything we do in a lot of ways in hockey and probably don’t always reward winning enough. Certainly, we have to produce a little more, but we don’t have to produce a whole bunch more if you really look at it. We need to flip a goal a game.”
As usual, I’m writing this before the game tonight, so how this comes off will likely determine your reaction to the above quote.