You're absolutely all over the place
This team obviously needs an adjustment period. It doesn't surprise me at all that some things look awful right now.
Hall is going to need to take a little while to get into gear. Remember, he's not pure goalscorer like Ovechkin or Kovalchuk. We can't expect him to be a one-man offense. He's two steps ahead of everyone on the ice, we need to give him and the rest of the team enough time to become familiar and anticipate.
Not really. I said that our reputation around the league is that we're boring. You flew off the handle and found it beyond comprehension that a player (elite offensive player to boot) would be frustrated with being on a boring team. I said we're boring (and not winning) precisely because we aren't scoring or generating much offense. I don't get what you're objecting to? I would hope that guys are frustrated, particularly our star player. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing.
None Shall Pass and Steve might want to try reading, one I said above earlier today Chara made a great play and two my last post didn't suggest he missed the empty net but didn't score on it, which is true.
None Shall Post if your snippy post wasn't directed at me then you can exclude yourself here.
Not really. I said that our reputation around the league is that we're boring. You flew off the handle and found it beyond comprehension that a player (elite offensive player to boot) would be frustrated with being on a boring team. I said we're boring (and not winning) precisely because we aren't scoring or generating much offense. I don't get what you're objecting to? I would hope that guys are frustrated, particularly our star player. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing.
I think Hall has been good - him and Zajac are the least of my concerns right now on offense...it's the other top guys that need to step it up.
Did people actually have expectations that our offense would be flying out of the gate??
It wasn't directed at you at all!
It's just torture here sometimes with the homer glasses turning into an echo chamber. Like the game the other night where Boucher (?) high-sticked a dude and people legitimately thought it never happened, then this **** where Chara blocked Hall's shot attempt.
Sometimes you just gotta yell into the void. The internet equivalent of a primal scream.
This is probably the three things a UFA is looking for:
1) $$$$$$$$
2) Does a team have enough to win a cup
3) Is the city/state where he would want to live and raise a family
I'm not even sure what you're contending is in their top ten. And I'm not flying off the hamdle, I'm just totally incredulous at your logic.
Better than what we've seen so far.
Nothing I said had a thing to do with UFA. If we're in the cellar offensively again and Hall finishes the season well below his career averages, you think he'll be happy? Maybe you don't realize this, but scoring goals tends to be related to wins and losses.
It's 4 games in which our three best offensive players from last season haven't been very good. Plus Hall, Bennett, Zacha, Fiddler, Parenteau, Lovejoy, Quincey, and Auvitu weren't with the team last year. It's not going to all come together in just a few weeks.
Being in the basement of the league offensively isn't frustrating for great offensive players, got it.
Am I alone in thinking that they haven't been nearly that bad? And that there was even a lot to like about the way we've played in these first four games?
Am I alone in thinking that they haven't been nearly that bad? And that there was even a lot to like about the way we've played in these first four games?
I can see it now. Speers looks good the next ~10 games, sticks with the team, then tapers off hard and gets stuck in the pressbox the rest of the season. Development year, gone.
That would be so Devils.