If Edmundson felt the board uninspiring, coach Craig Berube agreed. When Berube took over for Yeo, he took down the standings board that sits in the hallway from the parking lot to the dressing room at the team’s practice facility, because he thought it wasn’t sending the right message to the team. “It doesn’t change quick enough,” he said. “It’s just a negative effect.” He thought about doing the same thing with the puck board. But it stayed.

While Edmundson was less than thrilled with the board in those troubled times, Gunnarsson found it motivating.

“We needed a lot more pucks up there to even get in the playoffs,” he said. “I don’t think it was, what did you call it, demoralizing? That was more like, We’ve got to get going. We’ve got a long way to go, we’ve got to get going pretty soon here.

“Depending how you see stuff, it’s a half-full, half-empty situation. I didn’t think negatively about it. It was just, we’ve got to pick it up.”