I don't think a coaching change will dramatically improve our situation, but enough is enough. Therrien has proven time and time again that he has no consistent offensive system. Last year our hot PP helped to cover up our issues generating offensive even-strength, but this year our PP is horrendous.. that cats out of the bag.
I'm no expert on the intricacies of the game, not having ever played, but something I noticed last night is the way we cycle the puck in the corners. We'll have one player battling for the puck on the boards in the corner, with the other two forwards lining up behind the net along the boards and back on the sideboards waiting for the outlet pass. It seems like such a low percentage system - more often than not, we'll lose the puck without getting a shot off, or our players have no chance to get to a rebound in the rare event we get a shot away.
Now, other teams, it seems to me, when cycling the puck they have a player out front to suck in a defenseman and to give an offensive rebound threat. We, on the other hand, have all our players set up in the offensive zone in unthreatening positions. On more than one occasion, I've seen all three players positioned on the goal-line or behind the net, which basically means none of them are in position to score with a quick one-timer. We're making it far too easy for opposition defenses to nullify any offensive threat even when we're established in the attacking zone.
Now, maybe some of this is a function of having too many small or soft forwards, that we need to use 2 players to battle for the puck along the boards, but it seems like the offensive system is unchanged from last season. Perhaps I'm well off-base on this one, but what are others' thoughts?