This is still a very young team, and there is still going to be some brain farts by those young guys. Having said that, to me the Jackets are just not playing the game that made them so successful last season. Every game that I have been to and watched has not looked like the team we saw last season.
My biggest observation would be the lack of intensity of the fore-check. That carried them to many a victory last season, and to me has been completely lacking this season. Granted, one of the best, peskiest fore-checkers, Calvert, has been out, but still.
A few tweaks should help the D and goaltending, but the players need to kick up the fore-check to last seasons intensity level, to be better.