Frankly, i do blame alot of the lack of offense from Parise and others on the dump n chase style employed throughout the organization. We have some highly skilled offensive guys that had off years---Granlund, for example is a puck control guy. Kinda like asking Sammy Sosa to cut down on his swing and hit for average or Mark McGuire to choke up with 2 strikes and just put the ball in play, lol< I realize im exaggerating some. But point is guys like Granlund, Bouchard etc will occasionally turn the puck over but you cant squash their creativity but asking them to chip n chase all the time--gotta allow them to be creative,,,,when you have speed coming thru neutral zone--dont dump, challenge D man, get them to back off bluline and control puck and make plays. Dont try and turn every skilled guy into a chip n chase guy, otherwise just draft big rugged grinders and just contnue to dump the puck. We got rid of those type of guys, Shep, Nystrom, Gilles etc etc because we wanted to play a more puck control game, drafted a few skilled guys, then turned around and asked them to dump the puck---watching some of these teams they almost refuse to dump the puck, we have to move more towards puck control, IMO