It took just two days for Calgary Flames head coach Geoff Ward to use profanity to drive home a point during practice.
On Tuesday, the coach was irked by an offensive zone drill and launched into a brief soliloquy, demanding more focus.
“There’s a minimum standard of work that we want to adhere to,” Ward said on Wednesday.
“There’s a minimum standard of execution and we hold each other mutually accountable for both those standards. I just felt like so early in camp, things went a little bit awry with our execution and I just wanted to make sure we brought things back on track. It’s not something we do an awful lot, but once in a while we do use it to grab attention.”