Pretty much this.
We don't have a deep roster, so it would be easy for coaches to exploit matchups with us on the road. There would be lots more mismatches than with an average team.
The most interesting stat for how the team performed was days in between games.
Home + Road, collectively
4 days: 5 GP, 0-3-2 record
2 days: 16 GP, 2-10-4 record
1 day: 37 GP, 19-15-3 record
0 days: 13GP, 4-6-3 record
Now, let's look at those splits and isolate Home and Road.
Road
4 days: 2 GP, 0-2-0 record (PP% 0, PK% 66.7)
2 days: 10 GP, 1-7-2 record (PP% 3.2, PK% 75.9)
1 day: 11 GP, 3-6-2 record (PP% 19.2, PK% 72.5)
0 days: 11GP, 3-6-2 record (PP% 16.7, PK% 71)
Home
4 days: 3 GP, 0-1-2 record (PP% 20, PK% 69.2)
2 days: 6 GP, 1-3-2 record (PP% 19.1, PK% 73.7)
1 day: 26 GP, 16-9-1 record (PP% 15.5, PK% 82.3)
0 days: 2GP, 1-0-1 record (PP% 16.7, PK% 75)
Tied for the league lead in most games played back-to-back on the road. (Historically, teams post their worst split records on b2b and long off stretches)
Last in the NHL in games played on 1 day rest on the road. (Historically, teams post their best split records on 1 day rest in between games)
This is bizarre schedule-making, to say the least. We would expect them to perform worse on the road but with the way that they lined up their road schedule, it seemed unlikely they would have anything but a putrid win-loss record.