I'm not going full ship is sinking because as some people noted above we are rarely going to beat good teams without our top 2 centers. Larkin is the most important player on this team. We will go as far as he can take us.
With that said....
1. Powerplay Entry Plays
What is going on with our PPs? These drop passes to nowhere just eat up time and bunch every person (Wings & Opponents) at the defensive blue line. Then we still have to chip it in but instead of having people skate hard after the puck, it's an even race with our typically smaller forwards vs their bigger dmen.
Like it is so laughably bad right now that I honestly wonder if the guys are trying to get Tanguay fired. I mean I've seen quick drop passes used effectively on occasion but the Wings are slow drop passing the puck back 20 feet and half the time they play they are dropping to isn't even skating full speed yet. If you are going to drop back that slow it has to be a total reset on the PP. Most of the team needs to come back and you re-attempt the skate out.
2. Ed needs a call up. Our defense struggles to pass and transition plays. Our top end players are smaller and not great at supporting defensively along the boards, so we get trashed if we don't get pucks out of zone quickly. This is Ed's game. He is a transition dman through and through. We need these skills. Seider is the only guy that doesn't panic (a majority of the time) when the puck hits his stick in our zone, Ed would give us another guy. Is he going to make mistakes, absolutely! With that said though it is not like our defense dmen are so sound that they don't make a ton of mistakes. This is the most frustrated I've been since Goose about not calling a guy up. He is like the perfect partner for Chiarot. Holl and Petry should be benched. Maata hasn't been great this year either but I think he partners better with Ghost than Holl, Petry, or Chiarot for that matter.