How exactly am I "all over the place"? Please explain.
Do you think we were healthy the 18-19 season? Lol only 12 players played 70 games or more. What was your point?
One of the healthiest teams in the league my friend.
Where did I "demand" that we ignore the first 20 games?
"We were hot for 20 games and then fell back to our pace very quickly again. Our last 27 games we were barely over .500.
That is not improvement."
Looks like a demand to me. You're demanding we only look at the specific sample where Keefe's record was closer to Babcock's (still better) while wanting to completely ignore the 20 games where he blew it out of the water.
Teams tend to get hot after a coaching change, it's not new. We managed to play for 20 games at a hugher level before falling back to our old ways for the last 27. That's not what I'd call improving
I tend to take the more logical stance of losing half of our already thin D to injuries for the falloff. Btw you got any evidence of teams getting hot after a coaching change? Pittsburgh actually struggled a fair bit when they fired Johnston and hired Sullivan, they then proceeded to win the cup.
So in conclusion, you think our injury woes, goaltending troubles and slide in the standings are all based on luck? None of it is the fault of the guy responsible for the team?
Injury troubles - yes, complete luck. Those are things that vary drastically from year to year. One other thing I was going to ask you, which injuries this year were from "opponents taking liberties at our star players" that you claimed earlier? Sounds like more nonsense to me.
Goaltending troubles - Dubas' fault. He failed very badly acquiring a backup and waited way too long to do so. Thankfully Freddy's play started to stabilize when the D started getting healthy again.
Slide in the standings - What slide in the standings? We finished 7th in league. , 3rd in Atlantic in 17/18, lost to Bruins in 7 games. In 18/19, we finished 7th in the league, 3rd in Atlantic, lost to Bruins in 7 games. Precisely identical. As far as this year goes, Dubas/Shanahan made the stupid mistake of bringing back a coach that the team clearly tuned out. Said coach got fired and the team proceeded to get back on track, even keeping themselves in the picture with half of the D being injured. It's like I've said all along - there's been no clear decline from Lou to Dubas, just moving laterally.