Dear - "[Some media] can be quite brutal even if we're doing well."

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Warsaw, Poland – Warsaw’s seen a lot of results in their favor over the last few days, which may lead some to hand them an early ‘favorite’ designation. But the Predators generally aren’t so quick to judge.

 

“You see this all the time in the VHL – one team starts hot, and most of the time they cool off a bit later in the season,” forward Aloe Dear commented at a recent presser, “when I was growing up in Denmark, we saw much of the same happen to Malmo. They have obviously had some better seasons since, but the first ten games of the season are scarcely ever an indicator of how the rest of the season will play out. If we become complacent now, we might as well doom ourselves to the poor finish that some of those very, very early Malmo teams had – save their season with Thompson some eight years ago or so.”

 

“I understand media is quite fast to hitch their wagon to a new darling early in the season, but all it does is disappoint the fans more unless we essentially are perfect this season,” she continued, commenting on the 8-1-2 record after a recent string of iffy games, “and this is quite frequently the result after our first few losses. I think the earlier we can get the more critical media members off of our back, the better we’ll have this season. I’ve already asked some of our younger players not to look at media, as they can be quite brutal even if we’re doing well.”