The Canes secondary scoring has been absolutely abysmal this year. We have 8 guys who are playing on an almost nightly basis that have combined for a total of 8 goals and 215 man games played .
That must make it so easy to deploy matchups against the Canes, and it's no wonder why we are seeing guys like Aho, TT, and Skinner go on these crazy swings of hot and cold streaks. Something has to be addressed on that front.
Sure some of these guys are defenseman or more of a defensive forward, but the goal of the game is to put a puck in the net. These guys are simply not doing that at all and that's a problem. It may look like a small fix but I'd be interested to see what the dynamic of the team would like if we injected Zykov, Wallmark, & Foegele into the lineup and took out Kruger, Jooris, & Nordstrom.
I think something like this might start opening the ice for the whole roster. Kind of like in football if you have an effective pass game it's going to open up the run game for you too. Getting our 4th line to produce a few goals will start to provide the Canes with some hopefully mismatches.
You guys might ask who's gonna kill penalties now that practically our whole PK squad is benched? Honestly I don't know, Foegele maybe one of those guys, but our PK is ranked 27th so how much worse could it get? Next man up time.
If we can't make a trade or don't have the courage to fire Bill Peters yet, please shakeup the team in this direction to see what our young forwards can potentially do.
These kids are winning hockey games down in Charlotte their young youthful winning energy could be just what this team needs.