CycloneSweep
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- Sep 27, 2017
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The reason I and other think we can't make it is simply because....The team is 9 points out of a playoff spot with 50 games to play.
It's an enormous hole... absolutely. Impossible to dig themselves out of though... no.
Obviously if they can't put the puck in the net at a higher rate and keep it out at a higher rate as well... they are going nowhere. Offense has been improving slowly over the last 10+ games... goaltending and GA... not so much.
Special teams are not special at all. PK especially is abysmal.
They'll go nowhere with the worst save pct in the NHL so either a better goalie needs to be brought in or we have to hope that Talbot/Brossoit/Ellis/The Ghost of Christmas Past somehow can provide better goaltending in the 2nd half.
I still have a confidence that McDavid can help propel this team to a strong push for a playoff spot over the next 50 games. It's certainly a hard journey to get there as games don't get easier in the 2nd half but I still think this team has the ability to gel together and make a hard push for a playoff spot.
Special teams have been abysmal all year.
Goaltending has been league worst overall.
And NONE of that has been addressed in anyway so far.
Special teams have been kept the same. PK formation is the same, PP formation and units have mostly stayed the same. The coaching staff hasn't changed the message and hasn't done ANYTHING to address them. It took them what, 25 games to go to 3 centers, something that worked in pre season but they refused to try again. And what happened? We starting putting in a full team effort and lines were rolling.
If they can miraculously take our league worst special teams and goaltending and make it GOOD. We have a chance. That said nothing has been done to help it so there is no hope there. Our PK has been awful since October last year. It's not getting fixed any time soon.