Defense is mainly on the DMen.
Transition is a poor system.
Offense is on the players, mainly forwards (inconsistent and undermanned talent-wise). Not like it's bad though (just outside top10). Don't need change, just a little more help.
Possession seems like a system issue. Our defensive scheme doesn't seem to put us in a good position to win battles and the passive nature allows for easy cycling. We also seem to play prevent quite early, literally just getting the puck out of the zone and back to the other team. And our poor transition game hurts possession as well.
Offense and possession are trickier when part of the problem is that we don't hold the puck in at the opposing blue line as well as other teams; on top of not cycling as much as other teams or keeping the puck in the ozone with an aggressive forecheck as regularly.
Our Dmen pinch into the play to create overloads aggressively when we're in possession of the puck or when we're still in transition/the other team hasn't settled into their defensive shape in their own zone. But they seem a lot more passive when jumping up to keep loose pucks in. That's why someone like Gormley stuck out so much in a positive way, at least to me, despite not actually creating much offensively and being a complete pushover defensively. He did a nice job of keeping pucks in at the blueline without just leaving it in a corner for the forwards to fight over. Beauch has been a big help in this respect, and often times Bigras is to...I dunno if it's a system thing or if he just doesn't trust his partners the rest of the time, but too often he has seemed to err on the side of caution and abandoned the zone early to get back to clean up defensively like the lackwits in the bottom half of our defensive depth chart.
As though once we can't score on the rush or through a trailer jumping into the play; the dmen other than early-season-Beauch and somtimes Barrie/Bigras, start preparing themselves to get back on defense and just give up the offensive blueline.