McJadeddog
Registered User
Just keep looking up at the rumps of all the crap teams above us in the standings is all I can say. Even the few we are ahead of right now have games in hand. Has there been a minor improvement in points and differential and such? sure. Has the team looked vastly superior overall? Not in my books.
The team is a disappointment and if we are basing this year as good improvement I'll see you guys in the playoffs in another 5 years.
The good news is that we've seen a massive jump in the play of Draisiatil which has been a great surprise. Defense in general has been disappointing, goaltending sporadic, pp is horrawful.
The loss of McDavid was a massive blow and with him this team has another 4 or 5 wins imo. Can this team turn the corner and be good reasonably soon? Yes, but only if the GM makes a few team altering moves this off season.
i'm not sure we really know what the true impact of losing mcdavid is... i know its massive, but i can't quite get my head around it.... we've only seen him for 12 games, so its so difficult to assess his true impact.... i understand what this team is without hall, or eberle, but because we've seen so little of mcdavid, i don't quite understand the delta between this team with/without mcdavid just yet.... obviously we're better with him, but does it translate into 1 win in 40 games? 5? no idea really