There are so many things wrong with this team right now and I'm getting worried that's not just reactionary.
Despite defending Kopitar just a few pages back, the first line has been irrelevant going back to LAST season. 15 combined points in their last 28 games at ES is shocking.
So break them up? I don't know what to do with the lines at that point because we have no depth.
Frattin-Kopitar-Williams
Brown-Carter-Toffoli
Pearson-Richards-Lewis?
I don't know. No depth. One potential scoring forward in the minors. Splitting up all three centers puts a lead anchor on every line.
Regehr hasn't been our worst defenseman but he's a huge organizational issue on the team. It's pretty clear he and Doughty are just not a good pairing. Do you pair him with Voynov? Greene? Good god.
The issue I have is that Regehr will never be benched, so we can never truly tweak the pairings. It's just a disaster.
I wasn't worried one iota after last year'sslow start. Guys were out of shape, rusty, etc. Thos year it's very clear everyone is in shape, we had a full camp, and these are the results? It's going to be a long year and I have a feeling this team will look very different at the trade deadline.