This is a fantastic post. So is indigo's.
The bolded in particular.
Hey, thanks!
10-10-5 is terrible. Realistcally its 10-15. We have 3 rookies lighting it up and Anderson gives us a chance to win every night. Ridiculous line combinations is why were losing so many games. If our rookies were struggling I'd agree with you but their not, the vets are the ones struggling.
Bozak, JVR, Kadri, Komarov, Gardiner and Andersen are the vets playing big minutes. Of them, only Komarov is struggling and that's in an offensive capacity.
We are losing games because we are a rebuilding, inexperienced team that need growth and experience to become competitive.
Your point would hold water if it was in fact some of our lines that were ineffectual. They are not. We are producing offense across all three scoring lines, and our forward core have been effective.
For some reason, every single NHL team tends to be coached by idiots according to their fans due to not using lines that they themselves have theorized would be good. Not saying a coach is infallible, but that if you want to make that case, you better have some good arguments.
If you look at how our losses come to be, they have two things in common: 1) Goaltending, which is usually correlated but in our case it was especially clear in the beginning of the season 2) Inconsistency, we score in bunches which is exactly what you'd expect of a team heavily relying on rookies.
a man can have dreams cant he?
