Drysdale looked like the real thing the game we played them. He was just dominating and making it look effortless too.
It happens a lot against us.
Drysdale looked like the real thing the game we played them. He was just dominating and making it look effortless too.
Thats just it. It's all coachable things they are failing at.
Nico also did a good job fishing out pucks which leads to Bratt entry’s, its a good combo6 shots and a goal for Nico when he gets put with Bratt. He just gets guys going. Jesper is by far our best forward right now.
sole of it is personality. Nico Zacha and Bratt can all take a hit but they rarely hit back and are easy to play against.
And btw Mercer -4 with no points during his wing experiment...enough with putting our centers at winger please.
No such thing as a soft schedule for our team. I guess this stretch is the closing thing possible to that. Winnable games we can hope. I can hear the fans chanting "Ruff must go" or "fire Lindy". If we get off to another bad start.Schedule is pretty soft coming up so that might save Ruff's bacon
Part of that is just Hughes being terrible too. He’s been awful outside of the goal since coming back (understandably, I guess).And btw Mercer -4 with no points during his wing experiment...enough with putting our centers at winger please.
No such thing as a soft schedule for our team. I guess this stretch is the closing thing possible to that. Winnable games we can hope. I can hear the fans chanting "Ruff must go" or "fire Lindy". If we get off to another bad start.
They are coached that way. Hitting back almost always leads to 2 minutes for retaliation.
He’s another prehistoric buffoon.The dude won one Stanley Cup with a stacked Wings team, he wasn't one of the best coaches ever. He was a good coach that had one Cinderella run in Anaheim and never got over the hump in Toronto.
He’s another prehistoric buffoon.
I’m still cringing over his quote from not even a year ago
“You can’t have the wife and family I have if you’re a bad guy” or something like that.
The fact McLeod's getting fifteen minutes of icetime a night might be the most baffling coach blind spot I've ever seen, at least with the Devils. And that's saying something considering Lindy was supposed to be an upgrade on Hynes/Nas.
And the falling behind nonsense is just comical at this point, just in the last two weeks alone you have
-at Tampa, go down 2-0 (win)
-Minnesota, go down 2-0 (OT loss)
-at Nashville, go down 3-0 (loss)
-San Jose, go down 4-0 (loss)
-at Minnesota, go down 3-0 (loss)
-at Winnipeg, go down 3-0 (loss)
The Philly game is literally the only one in the last seven where they didn't go behind by multiple goals early, almost as if the comebacks in the first two games gave them a false sense of security.
A unique defensive structure probably means it’s complicated. That’s a bad idea to implement, and it’s even dumber when you’re doing it with a team of under-25 pups.Question for those more ax’s and O’s inclined: how similar is the defensive game plan to that if hynes? It still seams like the defenders are either confused about their assignments or teams are adjusting to both defenders chasing the puck carrier? I think it was Fitz that said they run a pretty unique defensive structure. Is this why Nas has survived this long and does that mean some of the decisions are coming from higher up? Ok tin foil hat off.
I'm not one to jump off a bridge and I've been patient but I'm up to here with this rebuild. A shake up of this team needs to happen. It's not just on coaching, that's the easy way out. I really think it's time to explore trading one of Zacha, Bratt or Severson. Wake this team up and send a message nobody is safe. Obviously don't give these guys away but if there's a hockey trade to make in the near future, it's time. We just can't seem to take that next step with this group.