There’s a ton of blame to go around
1) Hynes and his staff are atrocious, especially Kowalsky(runs the electric o/18 PP we have)
2) Defense as a whole is terrible; Greene is way past it, Subban is a shell of his former self, Severson has no clue how to play defense, Carrick/Mueller aren’t NHL players. Vatanen and Butcher are the only decent ones and Butcher really isn’t great in his own zone.
3) Goalies just aren’t good, Schneider can still have a good game here and there but injuries have taken their toll. Blackwood stinks.
4) Top guys up front have not shown up at all. Hall has been mostly terrible, Nico has been a complete no-show, Palmieri disappears periods at a time. Hughes has gotten better each game but wasn’t ready to be a center imo.
Crazy that the season started 10 days ago and it’s practically over already. They’re going to get hammered by the Rags on Thursday and if nothing happens after that than Shero might as well get his marching orders too.
and yeah it’s easy to change the coach instead of blaming the guys on the ice but I haven’t seen a team look so lost and uninspired since the MacLean nightmare of 2010.