These are all smart takes, but I still blame you for our team sucking. I thought we would be good and you realized we weren't. You saw something early and wanted to sell off UFAs and then team sank like a rock, so I can only assume this is all your fault.
I really thought last year was the last hoorah. I forget how many players scored over 20 goals but it was a crazy amount. With how the roster is built they had to all contribute like that to have a shot. The odds of repeating that offense was not good.
I didn’t know the defense would collapse as much as it did. The blame is with the players but the coaching staff never adjusted. Most of us, me included, rightly felt Hitchcock played a boring system. I understand it to a degree depending on the roster. The roster going into this year could have benefited from a Hitchcock type system. They don’t have the superstars to play a wide open run and gun system. Yet they play a more open, unaggressive system now than even when they won the cup.
For all the public statements regarding how close and friendly the roster was, it didn’t show on the ice. I have seen Binnington get bumped a lot this year and the soft players in front of him all look around like deer in headlights. Other teams don’t have similar reactions.
If the team was going to regress, this was the perfect season to do so. I’ll take the blame for it
