Edited Dec. 6, 2019 at 2:05 a.m.
Quoting: BOLTLOVER1
If not no playoffs
Dude, The Atlantic is the weakest division by far, we are still locked for top2-3 = 100% playoffs. Nothing changed... Boston-Toronto-Tampa top3 & probably - Florida 4th...but probably they don't make it so 5 from metro 3 from atl...
We are just bad, but other teams are similar/worse. Yes it sucks to see our team play like this after a 62 win season, but if we win 1 game in playoffs, we made some progress amirite?
Or who are we kidding right now about going deep in playoffs with zero defense... Yes you are right it's boring, so we need to get Toffoli or strenghten our D-core.
Schenn= AHL level
Rutta = KHL level
Coburn = retirement level(new girardi)
Shattekirk(buyout quality player proved by NYR) - this is the sad truth - yes he has 1 million points, but it doesn't help us at all... i rather have him 0 points and allow 0.5 goal/game less ... ( i would never play him top pair D - ever again, i thought Hedman can carry anyone, but not him... he is too offensive minded...)
McDavid,Ovechkin,Marchand eats Shatty's for breakfast... he just can't defend... and get pushed... = not what we need = yes for this caphit he is alright so he can stay but it's not gonna end well in the playoffs...
As you can see this is just lot worse than a lot of NHL teams D-core, and our forwards doesn't help them out like ever(except sometimes Point or Cirelli coming back),
and new this year = our 10 million goalie = huge down season... and i expected from him 2.3GAA... 0.930 SV%... that's just not happening...
But overall these last games are not that bad as the first St Louis or the Carolina first game in season...
These teams plays very similar style of hockey and we always have problems vs them:
Lately
started to play similar = Stanley cup
And
because of Barry "best coach in current NHL" Trotz
Interesting that this year 2 new teams started to play same style:
and
, so don't expect too much points vs these teams, unless we get lucky...
You can say Anaheim too , but they are pure garbage lately so we can beat them, same as LA...
So this loss is always expected until we have Jon Cooper as the coach, because he never changes tactics inbetween games. After the Minnesota game he said: we should win these games 2-1. What i saw on the ice: We attacked 24/7 as usual... Last year this playstyle earned us 62 wins, this year ~ 45... or less if we are unlucky...(or no trades)
It's pretty simple if you think about it: Other teams got better/changed tactics/learned from losses - and we just stalled/got worse = bad results vs these defensive teams...
Right now we are only top16 team in the league... 15 better teams existing... at least we are not bottom 10:
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
We are playing next vs san jose so i expect a win... but we'll see...honestly at this point i just wanna see us allow 0 or 1 goal in any given night ... if we lose 0-1 so be it... 2 goals allowed is not good enough vs san jose...
i rather take a 0-1 loss then a 5-3 win... but still im not too worried until All-Star break... if we play like this at that point... then it becomes annoying...