To be fair I don't think this stretch is completely on Bednar. I definitely think there is things he has not tried. To be honest there really isn't a perfect answer except the top line getting hot again, and or our bottom nine contributing again. I think he should try Soda in the top six, and take a risk on the rest of the forwards at least holding the fort, but other than that one trick he hasn't tried the team is just teetering on this line where they can't out play one ounce of bad luck. No team in the NHL plays a perfect game with zero mistakes. It's not really realistic to ask. Especially with fatigue as a more prevalent factor when probably six of your bottom nine are asked to play over their heads for this long.
The real answer isn't on this team, and Bednar isn't going to directly say he needs a top six forward. Bednar might have been able to stop some of the bleeding in this stretch to an extent, but I'm not sure there is options out there that would have turned it into a 7-2-1 last 10 or something to that effect. You had goal-tending crapping the bed back when we were putting up 4 plus goals a game, and now the offense has gone cold.
In saying all of that. It is going to take some serious success to convince me Bednar is the coach for this team during contention.
The real answer isn't on this team, and Bednar isn't going to directly say he needs a top six forward. Bednar might have been able to stop some of the bleeding in this stretch to an extent, but I'm not sure there is options out there that would have turned it into a 7-2-1 last 10 or something to that effect. You had goal-tending crapping the bed back when we were putting up 4 plus goals a game, and now the offense has gone cold.
In saying all of that. It is going to take some serious success to convince me Bednar is the coach for this team during contention.