Domingue hasn't been great and I can't imagine how frustrating the soft goals are for a coach, given they're bad enough as a fan - yet I don't think his performances come close to meriting all this focus. The play in the defensive zone has been diabolical. The last two games have shown improvement in terms of all round play (great corsi last game!) but I think the play without the puck in our own zone was as bad as it's been. Some stats to support this (all are for even strength play):
Sites that track shot quality can split them into high, medium and low danger chances, depending on where on the ice the puck was shot from. Credit to section328.com for this graphic, which I think matches the old war-on-ice one showing the different ice areas for each category.
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Over the first 5 games of the season, the team's given up significantly more high danger chances than anyone else:
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For reference, here are the bottom 10 teams in this stat last year: [collapse=3]
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The Rangers gave up the most last year with 838 even strength high danger chances against, which averages out as just over 10 a game. Through 5 games, we're on pace for 1181.
Against the Rangers, we gave up 17 high danger chances at even strength. Domingue saved all but 1, a significantly higher sv% than league average. That obviously doesn't make it any better when an easy shot from just inside the blueline goes in - the point is that I think we've left our goalies out to dry so far this season and that team defence is by far the bigger ill.