Tripod
I hate this team
ummm...that's what we have been doing and few of the young players have stepped up to take the reigns.Why? They've proven they're not good enough to carry a team deep into the playoffs.
So why spend assets to tweak a team around them?
Rather, build a team and let them be complementary players.
Go look at your OLD 2 years away notes. This was supposed to be Couts, TK, Patrick, Lindlom, Frost, Farabee, Hayes, Provy, Sanheim, Myers, Hart's, etc... team.....with G, Jake and JVR as the vets playing a support role.
Now go look who leads us in points....JVR, Jake and Giroux. Who leads us in ES points-Jake, JVR and Giroux.
Out "vets" are still carrying this team because the kids have not been good enough. We are supposed to have a great defense by now...and none can be trusted to actually play good defense on a nightly basis...let alone great defense. Add in Hart's implosion and you get Elliot(vet) being our best goalie this year.
Then we went and add 3 vet coaches to get the stench of Hak off us...and they have done jack shit to get the best out of the players like good coaches do. We have a 28th ranked PK, a PP that the talent carries us and coaches has added nothing, and a head coach who continually benches good players when playing well..."to send a message". Good coaches put players into the best situation to succeed. Our coaches have not done that.
But hey...in 1 year we could be without Giroux and Couts and maybe JVR/Jake due to the ED. We wasted our 2 best players since Lindros. We are coming up on 7 years since Hextall was hired(in May) and are about to go into year 8. We have no star to replace Giroux. We have no #1Dman who controls the game. Hell..we have no top 30 goalie let alone a top one.
This offseason shit needs to get done and we are very likely to do shit things if all the other smaller moves are any indication. Going to be a fun ride on the flume of shit.
Oh...and I won't bother going back and forth with you today as i don't have the desire. Let's all hope a miracle happens and Fletch does something good.