From day one most were saying we needed help on defense. We weren't even one injury away from having one of the worse d-corps in the league, we were damn near there when healthy. Thank god Davidson looked pretty decent.
If it took people until this 5-0 loss to have clarity then you must've had a pretty good ****ing time watching this team this year. This crap play, lack of effort, lack of heart has been there all year, but generally the skilled players would eventually bounce back and we'd have a string of a few decent games.
Players need to be accountable, but at some point you have to give them the proper tools. Essentially we are working with ringette sticks on the point and can't even get the puck to the skilled players.
As much as the players need to be changed it's not their fault that the team is built wrong.
Don't get me wrong...as a part season ticket holder myself, I've been inclined to complain as much as the next guy. My point is that in as much as we've all complained, I think that the hope has always been there that with the right circumstances, it needn't be blown up - yet again.
Most fans appear to have waffled between disgusted and "carefully intrigued" depending on the outcome of the last game. The consistency has not been there to be sure, but in the midst of the sample size suggesting otherwise, there's been hope. For many, at least. At minimum, a hope that apart from Yakupov who has publicly stated he wants out, the core could remain if only we could acquire a legit #1 dman.
But there was a particular depth to Saturday's suck that has certainly shattered any figment of optimism. And regardless of how many players actually do want out now, a good chunk need to be shown the door in favour of a blend that will stand a chance to end the optical abuse.