Karl Cowensson said:
McLean is just sheltering young inexperienced players. Lehner and Wiercoch especially have been widely inconsistent. They both show a lot of promise, but they are still young, and even if they are both ahead of where you would think they should be in their development being a little more selective in who they play against is probably the best thing for their confidence and development long term. Plus we do have a win now mentality, not a lot of freedom for on the job learning there.
False. Well, kind of. Lehner was down right brilliant early on the year. And everytime he'd play out of his mind, MacLean would still revert back to Anderson who was brutal to start. That really played with Lehner's mind. Put a lot of pressure on him to do better cause obviously he wasn't getting a string of games together when he was playing excellent.
I'm not blaming MacLean but it's not hard to see why Lehner started slumping all of a sudden. He was placed in very tough situation.
Lehner's worst games came against Detroit, LAK, TBL, NJD(Worst game Sens played all year) and BOS. All but DET are playoff teams.