Who were they going to put out there after Provovov, V and G failed to take advantage of the opportunity to win the game?
They're playing very good defense the last two games, the worst plays were bad passes in the D-zone by Couts, Provorov and Manning and another dumb stick penalty by Giroux. And PEB failed to clear the zone after a power play. Other than that, they were fine. Problem is if they're conservative, they don't score, if they open it up, they're a sieve. Pick your poison.
The problem on offense starts with the fact that Giroux is a shadow of himself, he used to drive the play, now he waits in the shadows for the puck to be passed to him. Couts is a defensive center and Schenn isn't a center. I don't care what system you run, or if Konecny and Ghost are out there, they're not even going to be average at ES until reinforcements arrive. Konecny wouldn't have done much today, Kings were checking all over the ice, the kind of games where midgets get swallowed up. And remember, he has all of 4 ES goals, not exactly a game changer, though he is better than Luby and Weise.
The problem is talent, or lack of such, you can't complain about the effort, but jeez, Streit is so slow these days, I'll take any draft pick I can get for him, MDZ, Schultz or Manning. But we know all these, except the fools who think a different coach can take mediocre players and turn them into allstars.
They were turning the puck over like crazy.
