this team has some holes defensively for sure
namely dan girardi is awful. his corsi numbers are terrible and he doesnt pass the eye test either. he's just bad.
the rest of the defense is passable to solid. not having mcd hurts.
however, this teams inability to finish and score goals- when the effort is there and they are outplaying their opponent, really hurts. outplaying and not outscoring is not outplaying. this has become this teams achiles. inability to score eventually results in losses.
in fact, inability to score results in losses and then we hear "we didn't play that bad" or "got unlucky" or worse, "I'm not that unhappy with this loss really, it was a good loss- we played well and just needed a few more bounces". we hear all of that which really says, we played, cant score and lost.
weve heard that all season. thats what losers say.
the offense (inability to score goals) or lack thereof has, is and continues to kill this team and ultimately will be responsible for our failure.