Yea thats the most maddening thing is Blue scored/did all those good things down the stretch and they just throw in ZAR, who everybody on the staff should know the guy takes a while to get going. Throwing him right into a PO series was dumb and not only did they do that, they promote him him to play top 6 wing when McCann couldn't go.
The other most maddening thing is putting Jake-Sid-Rust together with what it looked like last time it was together. It was playing alot of hockey in it's own end of the ice is what it was doing.
The lines that worked down the stretch were McCann-Sid-Jake and Simon-Bjugs-Horny. They shouldn't have broke them up.
Just had to slot someone like Blue/Johnson beside G-Phil and let 'em go out and play.
I don't even know if all that would've made a difference against these Isles but it would've been a helluva lot smarter to start with that.
Atleast they got the D right. It's just Dumo-Tang are banged up/just got back and Olli had wut, 2 games to prepare for the ratcheting up.
True. All season, whenever I would do the whole exercise of 'mix your own best 12F/6D lineup', after 30 seconds I'd almost always end with this expressionI feel like the only time people wring about line combinations is when our depth just isn't that good. At times it feels like people are micro-optimizing because there isn't really another alternative.
And the fact that Shero admitted he only picked the first rounders, and left the remainder to the scouting staff. So based on that, he wasn't a good at drafting.People just hate how bad he blew that Pouliot pick. Well at least that’s the case for me.
Late to the party.
While I'm sure the Penguins are getting savaged and there's talk of their window closing without a retool (the latter, I'd agree with), let me just switch gears and say that the Islanders have the look of a team that can win the Stanley Cup. They're giving me acid flashbacks to the Lamoriello Devils at their best.
Yea thats the most maddening thing is Blue scored/did all those good things down the stretch and they just throw in ZAR, who everybody on the staff should know the guy takes a while to get going. Throwing him right into a PO series was dumb and not only did they do that, they promote him him to play top 6 wing when McCann couldn't go.
The other most maddening thing is putting Jake-Sid-Rust together with what it looked like last time it was together. It was playing alot of hockey in it's own end of the ice is what it was doing.
The lines that worked down the stretch were McCann-Sid-Jake and Simon-Bjugs-Horny. They shouldn't have broke them up.
Just had to slot someone like Blue/Johnson beside G-Phil and let 'em go out and play.
I don't even know if all that would've made a difference against these Isles but it would've been a helluva lot smarter to start with that.
Atleast they got the D right. It's just Dumo-Tang are banged up/just got back and Olli had wut, 2 games to prepare for the ratcheting up.
A little bit of what we’ve all been saying...I know people hate this guy but he’s not wrong...
HockeyBuzz.com - Ryan Wilson - The writing has been on the wall and nobody wanted to read it
They aren't 0-3 because of their 4th line wingers.I'm with you I can't disagree with anything he is saying per se. I do think on the whole JR hasn't been quite as bad as he alludes. I mean he even points out the roster that should be on the ice and it's pretty much the thing we've ALL been clamoring for, sit wilson + zar and put in Blueger and A. Johnson. Only variance might be Olli vs JJ.
Still I keep coming back to it. If the tools are in the tool box but the coach decides to use a screw driver to drive a nail instead of the hammer, is that not on the coach more so then the GM ?
About goddamn time.
Too bad it's 3 games late.
With the exception of JJ still being in there and AJ not in there for ZAR or Wilson, it's as good as we could expect...
When the JJ alternative is Maatta, I'm fine with him staying in. If Riiko were an option I'd use him. It'd be nice to see Bluegs over that lump ZAR, but whatever. Like you say, it's about the best we can hope for.
With how bad you were playing, the beers in the stands were all empty.View attachment 215261
How did this guy not get a beer shower at minimum? Seriously. Can you imagine if he wore a "Bergeron sux" jersey in Boston? Or a "Giroux sux" jersey in Philly?