Am I alone in thinking this isn't Berube's fault? Grant it he isn't the best coach... but I don't think anyone could turn the team around right now... it was known by everyone that the team wouldn't be good, the defense is just terrible.
I say ride the year out, see if we can sell off some of our bad contracts, get a good draft pick and see what coach we can pick up over the summer.
So we lose our 2nd line center, we break up our 1st line to solve this. B.Schenn plays well with G and Jake but keeps getting moved. As a coach he should be promoting from below. You move the guy YOU WANT TO SCORE MORE (Coots) to the 2nd line center role, move PEB to a defensive line role and move Vinny between rinaldo and vdv. Lines should have been:
Schenn - g - jake
Raffl - Coots - Simmons
Umberger - PEB - Read
Rinaldo - Vinny - Vdv
Rinaldo has been scrathed lately for a reason. He is bad and there are better options. So when we need to reincert him in the lineup, lets put him with a group that plays a lot. Weird, he hasnt gotten many penalties this year with not so much pt and now 1 game back with big icetime he grabs 2