Every time Salvador touches the puck, the next place it goes is the other team's stick with him facing our goal chasing the other player.
He looks like a men's league player right now.
After tonight and from what I saw Pete say after the game, to me here is the situation. Lou doesn't want to give up futures. We hit some bad luck after some glory years and this is the best roster we can put on the ice. Pete knows his job is on the line here because Lou isn't giving up anymore futures to get better now, he saw the misfortune with Kovalchuk leaving. Pete needs to put the best lineup out there to win, not looking to develop players at this point in the game. If Gelinas is only playing minutes when we need offense, then development aside, that may be our best tactic to winning. We aren't getting a pick this year, so put development aside and do the best we can do. Focus on development when we get rewarded for being back. Pete has made what looks like some bad personnel decisions, but hes a young coach that is likable by players. Something this team hasnt had in a while
So basically we're the Jets.
We have an owner, GM and head coach that all want different things.
The owner wants immediate and prolonged success, GM wants the future in tact and the head coach knows he has to win now to keep is job.
You know who it sucks for? The Fans.
Gionta played more than Elias?
Is that a practical joke?
We win and people still aren't happy. This place...
I am happy that we did get the W but it still doesn't excuse the coach making bad decisions. Not everything is bad even in a loss and not everything great even when you get the W.
I agree, it just seems the negativity outweighs the positivity around here more often than not.
So in other words you are saying we have one heck of a coach! LOL.After tonight and from what I saw Pete say after the game, to me here is the situation. Lou doesn't want to give up futures. We hit some bad luck after some glory years and this is the best roster we can put on the ice. Pete knows his job is on the line here because Lou isn't giving up anymore futures to get better now, he saw the misfortune with Kovalchuk leaving. Pete needs to put the best lineup out there to win, not looking to develop players at this point in the game. If Gelinas is only playing minutes when we need offense, then development aside, that may be our best tactic to winning. We aren't getting a pick this year, so put development aside and do the best we can do. Focus on development when we get rewarded for being back. Pete has made what looks like some bad personnel decisions, but hes a young coach that is likable by players. Something this team hasnt had in a while
Gelinas with less than 3 minutes? Why even dress him?
And Elias with less icetime than Ryder, Zubrus, Clowe and Gionta? You can't make that **** up. We are starving for offense and Elias gets less icetime than Stephen Gionta?
That's why I was puzzled everyone was referring to Elias-Gionta-Brunner as the second line. I thought they were the third line all along tbh, and combined with the whole dressing three centers thing and all of them double shifting, you have Gionta playing more.
But I can't really kill Pete for giving one of his older players a few less minutes on the front end of a back-to-back. Unless it happens again tonight in a close game.