"Everyone is looking at me right now like I'm the worst piece of s—t out there,'' Radko Gudas was saying at his dressing room stall recently, and this was after his oft-tortured coach had lauded his two previous days of inspired practice.
But it will take more than a couple of practices for the Flyers defenseman to regain the worth, the promise, that once compelled Paul Holmgren to trade for him. Gudas is coming off a season that began, for him, with such promise, his early affectively aggressive play dissolving via yet another incident in which he, in his own words, "crossed that line''.