I'm not even mad. Leafs are an extremely talented team, even though their defense sucks. In fact, I'm happy that Merrill and Santini keep playing really well, especially the hated Merrill.
Liking it or not, it's a skill league. You need skilled players to succeed, especially on the PP. Devils don't have them. Devils' 'top' center hasn't scored a goal in 16 games.
Once again, did you see who Zajac was playing with tonight? Good luck on him scoring another 4 points this season, the longer he has to play with Kal1n1n and his 3 points. Lappin is probably on an even longer goalless streak and pointless streak altogether.
Too many coaches have lost the team over the past several seasons. I think they need to take a good look at the roster and figure out if there is a cancer there somewhere. Maybe, I dunno, Henrique?
I don't think any of the coaches in recent years have lost the team, other than Hynes.
I don't think Pete ever really lost the team and while I was calling for him to go for a while, I never thought he lost the team. The only time I thought he had lost the team was during the awful start to the 13-14 season. During October of that season and maybe a couple of those awful performances in November, like that embarrassing Ray Emery shutout game and then getting shutout by Minnesota the next night. It turned out that he didn't really lose the team, I just think it was time to go, I don't think he exactly lost the team. Not even at the end.
MacLean didn't lose the team, he just actually never had the team.
I don't think the Hydra/N. Bench staff lost the team either. They just weren't good coaches. Oates time in Washington confirms that and who the hell was really even coaching the team then? Under the Hydra staff, we looked a lot like last year under Hynes, only worse offensively (as if that was possible) and slightly worse defensively.