So this year is more of an anomaly than the norm. They likely will get better, so I'm not going to panic. I'd rather be good 5-on-5 and struggling on special teams than the other way around.
Agreed that it's too bad to sustain at this level, but not having Coleman and Greene around anymore is definitely making things worse (anyone have numbers on how the PK looked after both guys got traded last year?).
The issue with "fire Nas" or whatever is that it's not likely to improve things; the personnel to have a strong PK just isn't there right now, and they're not going to get any practice time to fix the problems or try something new outside of a game. That said, given how awful it's been there does have to be
some kind of in-game shakeup, literally anything at this point, because it basically can't get any worse.
As for other issues, it's still a team of guys playing 3 games in 4 days, with other key players just getting back into the lineup over the weekend after weeks of having to sit, and again it's all with no practice time. We're going to have to face facts: it's a shortened season, it's an already condensed season that's not condensed even worse for the Devils, and overcoming that is going to be tough. They'll have to cycle people in and out while allowing everyone to also get their legs back under them after so much time off, so it'll be ugly sometimes. Sucks, but COVID season gonna COVID season, and it's still a team in development.