We have a team that's good, a few little tinkers on the roster and we are fine, but the problem is the coaching staff.. people really underrate how much a coach can change the playstyle of the team and get them to perform to their abilities and not playing a different style than they should be like they are now..
We should focusing on puck possesion more and cycling rather than just throwing puck at the net for 2nd/3rd chance plays and generating HD chances that way. 5V5 that's how most of our goals are scored, just rebounds and puck luck mixed with when our skill does show.
Now where our skill should show is on the man advantage and this year it was in a freefall around december onwards I think, We don't run a PP setup built for our players, everyone plays on their strong side so there is not many setting up the shooter plays and not a lot of shooting as a result of that, we literally try to pass the puck in close and try to get deflections and rebounds, that's a part of hockey but really you can't have that as your main point of attack on a PP, and Matthews has shown that he is a very capable shooter on his offwing in the playoffs so I dont understand. Hiller is most likely gone and hopefully replaced by Keefe in AC role.
DJ Smith runs a defensive structure where we do not defend the point, he leaves it open which against teams like St Louis and NYI showed how f***ing bad of a scheme it was just letting point shots fly. IDK what they are going to do with DJ Smith but whatever.