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Article: For Schoenfeld, Losing Stings; Caps Coach Balancing `Highs' and `Lows'
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- The Washington Post
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- November 29, 1996
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Washington Capitals Coach Jim Schoenfeld remembered the
gnawing, vacant feeling that travels with losing. He just forgot how
deeply it runs.
"There's a real sting when you lose," he said yesterday,
mulling over the Capitals' 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Ottawa
Senators Wednesday night. "When you're used to winning, you forget
how crummy you feel after a loss."
Not that the Capitals, who have posted a 92-72-26 record in
Schoenfeld's four seasons as coach, ever would be confused with a
team such as the Chicago Bulls, for whom losses have become so rare
that each has its own identity. But before Wednesday night, the
Capitals had won six of their previous eight games and had been ...