I don't think Tocchet is the coach for this team. I definitely know that MaClean sucks ass
Chayka has done exactly what he set out to do. And it has been done fairly on schedule. Not Strome's fault that he isn't Eichel or McDavid.
Our AHL team is no longer a question mark as we get players who can continue to come up through. Last I checked, we were still a top team in possession, shot differential, and all of the major drivers that lead to success. Just because we haven't notched Ws in bunches doesn't mean that the direction of the team isn't in its right place.
I don't see how we could justify getting rid of Chayka. Coaching is a different story, and I do think that Tocchet needs to be a little bit of a dick to players sometimes. Players get motivated differently and as much as people disliked Tippett's style, I also think that it made players fight for something and battle a little bit harder when there was more inherent danger of being sat. I don't see that urgency quite there all the time, but maybe that is carrying from coach to player and Tocchet isn't an urgent type of guy.
Maybe Ollie is hurt?
You know, from the slide tackle he took on Saturday?
I dunno...
Crouse has been solid. One of the few bright spots.
Tocc is starting to crack, his post-game was just pure frustration. He was internally screaming
Link?Tocc is starting to crack, his post-game was just pure frustration. He was internally screaming
Like I said..he is trying not to crack as he needs to keep up morale.
In all my years following this team, I have never seen that before. Very depressing.It’s been five games and no player has more than a single point on the season.
I thought OEL is playing pretty good this year. It"s the rest of the D I'm concerned about.OEL definitely not leading by example this year
Who said we are rushing him? RT said they won't.As much as I'd like to see us score some goals, I'm not sure I want Galchenyuk back. I'd rather not rush him and if he we can't score goals without him I don't see him completely changing our offense. We're going to be in big trouble soon with or without him.
That being said, if we can throw a few win streaks together throughout that season this is easily fixable. Even if we go 1-8. Lots of teams have made miraculous season turnarounds after people thought they were out of it and still made the playoffs. That's my hope right now. We need to start scoring before Galchenyuk comes back.
We have very little net presence. We have Fischer and Crouse that can do the job. but either aren't given the opportunity, like Crouse, or not doing it on a consistent basis, like Fischer. This team was soft last year and we are again this year. The score was closer than what it should have been as the Wild missed many opened nets. RT has finally started to play Stepan much less which should have happen a long time ago. Every C was killing it in the dot, except Stepan, who was 35%. Demote him to the third line when Chucky gets back. Like RT said you sometimes have to will yourself to a W, and he is correct, but so far no one has.This is not a surprise to me at all . This team is full of perimeter pillow punchers. You saw Perlini actually try tonight and he's a big body that can go to the net but generally he's a pretty soft player. A good budding player but soft.
This is not RT's fault. Chyka put together this team. Watch NHL games , most goals are scored by guys being or going to the net. Whacking, battling, deflecting shots getting rebound. The coyotes are the worst ever that I've seen for this.
They remind me a lot of how the Oilers have constructed teams. Lots of first round soft type talent. Nugent-Hopkins snowflakes.
It's going to be a long year. They will start scoring goals. Interesting that Alex is waiting to come in to play. Another floater who can score. Who did we trade him for? one of our only gritty/talented guys Domi.
Lastly how does anyone know McLean is a lousy assistant? Why are people wanting an assistant fired? Baffling. He's the least of any of our issues.
Oesterle played very well.Oesterle really brings something extra, more of him less Demers plz.
Our D gets a lot of their shots blocked. We have not adjusted as this has happened all year.I swear we'd have 10 more shots if the Dmen would aim a little lower for redirects. You're not gonna snipe it from 35 feet.
Well, we are down three guys.THEY PLAYED LAST NIGHT AND ARE DOWN 2 GUYS
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON
The camera zoomed in on Strome in the box and if you read his lips he said "f--- me, and shook his head.That was hella embellished, strome has the strength of an 8 year old