Can’t? Can’t isn’t just a four-letter word to Bobby Brink. It’s his trigger and rallying cry, the thing that sets him off, the spinach to his Popeye.
It was a button that Luke Strand, who coached the Denver University hockey star for a year and change with the USHL’s Sioux City Musketeers, didn’t have to use often. But he knew when to push it.
One of those moments came late in the winter of 2019. It was during a team meeting, and Brink, the NCAA’s leading scorer, Hobey Baker Award finalist and engine that’s helped power DU to the 2022 Frozen Four, walked in with linemate Martin Pospisil about 50 seconds after Strand had kicked things off.
The coach, torn between apoplectic and disappointed in his best two players, didn’t hesitate.
See that clock?
Can’t do that, Bobby.
Can’t play the next game, kid.
Eric Lutzens, The Denver Post
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