Doesn't Carberry think he has something to do with the entire team not showing up to the game (i.e. not allowing Arizona to touch the puck for 4 minutes and completely falling apart right after that)? Or maybe that he should respond in some way when 2 vice-captains take back to back undisciplined penalties? Or his half-AHL roster trying to out-finesse their opponents with little intensity or physicality in the offensive zone until the last 5 minutes?
It seems he is incredibly patient and forgiving with certain veterans who aren't actually leading by example (Kuznetsov was the most blatant example, but far from the only one) and very strict with the AHL call-ups whom he's 'very proud of'. He benches our only energy line for a mistake (and yes, it was a bad mistake from bad players), but doesn't really reacts to bad plays from, say, McMichael (not to sound like a hater, but his inaccurate passes and overholding the puck are so infuriating).
Also, if we take away Ovechkin's last 4-minute shift (half PP, half ES), he played less on ES than Milano, Protas, Pacioretty, Lapierre. All this in a game when we trailed for 50 minutes. I'm not a promising NHL head coach, but I'm not sure how does Carberry want to win if he plays forwards who are both very average playmakers and can't really score on NHL level. And then sends a 38 year old out to spend the last 5 minutes without changing in a hail Mary attempt to save the day.
