For the first time, I think I could have backstopped a team to win an NHL game. We generated no chances and no traffic. Every shift it seemed one of our forwards would attack the line 1v3 and turn it over with no support anywhere near them. If we did get the puck down low it would be a 1v2 board battle with no support. Everyone seemed so concerned with playing defense that they forgot they needed to score to win the game. The team last night looked like Dave Lewis was behind the bench.
We can do better, but something has to change in the lineup. Heinen, Wagner, Accari, Nordstrom, Backes, Donaro, etc... We have 2 lines of underperforming players and our 2nd line has 2 players on it that are contributing and one of those only started to recently.
I have to believe coming into this season this was worst case scenario for this team. Time to make some changes and shake things up. 10 games.... ok slumps happen. 25 games.... this isn't a slump anymore. Something is wrong. If we didn't get an all star performance from our goalies on the majority of nights, we would be discussing draft prospects right now and that is not acceptable.