Hyman has more good offensive plays in this game than Komarov has in the season, who is also a staple on the power play, yet it's always Hyman people talk about. I don't get that. The fixation with him is quite weird.
Komarov has been our worst offensive player by far this season. Matt Martin can't see him in his rear view mirror. And he logs tons of minutes, and sees power play time. Among player usage, he's in a league by himself. It's the only thing that I actually look at and see a problem. What is a problem is how we play our breakouts, how we attack the neutral zone and attempt entries, how we try to get the puck back.
When this team plays at its best, we are quick out of our own zone, we have people joining the rush creating a plethora of options in the neutral zone, we default to carry-ins if possible, we work a cycle where we let the puck do most of the work, we pinch more than anyone else to maintain pressure and create turnovers, and we force teams to play a quick game with a lot of pressure. We have changed our game on all those points, and in doing so taken our biggest strength and pretty much shoved it into what holes we had in our game.
Yes, we've won a lot. Due to absolutely unsustainable goaltending. Relying on getting the best goaltending in the league by far is not a good plan for success.
