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Bob McKenzie was on Edmonton’s TSN 1260 on Monday morning.

(Following a discussion on the Edmonton Oilers and Todd McLellan’s post-game exasperation) On Patrick Roy’s frustration with his Colorado Avalanche and Matt Duchene’s celebration:

“Well, to the very specific charges that Patrick Roy made about Matt Duchene and the core and having a losing mindset – I understand on one level where he’s coming from on the Duchene celebration. There’ll be a lot of people in hockey who say, ‘You’re down 4-0, the season is slipping away, and Matt Duchene is pretty excited to score his 30th goal.’ I guess hockey lore or hockey culture is you’re not supposed to celebrate individual achievements when the team isn’t sharing in those.

“You know what? I’m going to flip this around a little bit and say yeah, I can understand some people, including Patrick Roy, being a little miffed by the level of celebration from Matt Duchene. But I’ll tell you something else. It was 4-0. It wasn’t 14-0. It was 4-0 and there were over four minutes left in the hockey game.

“Now, I understand the odds of the Colorado Avalanche coming back to get a playoff spot are slim and none. And I understand that in most hockey games when you have a three-goal lead with four minutes left that most teams do button it down and that’s that and you’re not going to win. But I mean, it’s not unheard of for a hockey team, especially one in dire straits that’s that desperate – maybe somebody else should have got more excited about Matt Duchene’s goal that made it 4-1.

“Instead of having Patrick Roy admitting after the game that this reflects our losing mindset, maybe we should have more of a winning mindset. That is, when Matt Duchene scored the goal, the bench should have been up celebrating. Patrick Roy should have been up celebrating. Everybody should have got fired up to try and score three more goals in the final four minutes and salvage a point and keep the dream alive, however unrealistic that might be given how far behind Minnesota they are. But Minnesota was also losing on the day, so…

“If there’s a losing mindset, I think it permeates the entire organization and that probably Matt Duchene took an excessive amount of blame for what probably is an organizational problem, and not just with the players. Because if the coach is saying that you shouldn’t be celebrating a 4-1 goal with four minutes left, what the coach is basically admitting to me is, ‘We’re not winning this hockey game and we’re not making the playoffs.’ “

Source: TSN 1260/ Transcript: Nichols