there's a huge difference between a team playing badly and a team sucking. A lot of people in the GDT clearly don't see that. A few different people were saying how we just aren't built for playoffs and how we're going to be a 1st round exit. Like we've never played a handful of bad games in a row before. And we're good enough that we still win some of these bad games
No, the bigger problem with them not being built for the playoffs.
Crosby, Malkin, Kessel, Hagelin, Hornqvist, Guentzel, Rust, Kuhnhackl, Rowney, Sheary, Letang, Dumoulin, Maatta, Schultz, Ruhwedel, and Murray have all won at least a cup with this team. It’s most of the f***ing team. They upgraded Bonino with a playoff beast, ZAR is probably better than the misused anchor Kunitz became, Sheahan is a 3C on L4 and who knows what Oleksiak will do in the playoffs. They’re not built for the playoffs, though.
Yeah, Rowney is wet garbage and Kuhnhackl isn’t whatever Sullivan thinks he is, but they don’t have to play. As stupid as the Cole mess was he’s not a deathblow but Daley is a loss. The D are weaker (who knows by how much, tbh) but the forwards are better. Come the f*** on.