Things we have covered:
1.) claim that Backy is bad
2.) claim that Backy can't control his rebounds
3.) Defense MIGHT be an issue.
4.) Forwards are not sustaining pressure in the offensive zone
5.) Harding is not the answer
6.) claim Backy has a problem with flopping
7.) claim Backy has an injury
That is this thread recapped. Now let's break it down a little. Backy has IMO stolen as many games as he has cost us this season. How? Chicago he stole the game. Nashville the other night, he stole that game as well. He did however lose a pair of games for us.
Backy is not bad... The system is bad. I do not, nor have I ever believed in Yeo's system. I don't know how many times Backy has left a rebound that is only "juicy" because the 3-5 guys in front of him don't have their heads on a swivel and are caught staring at some chick in seat 32 row 21 section F. While they are staring someone sneaks behind them and picks it up and slamming it home. Now why are our guys staring at said imaginary hottie? Well 1 of 3 reasons, 1 being Ms. Imaginary Hottie puts Kathrine Webb to shame, 2 they have become dreamers and daydream on the ice (Unlikely as they are professionals and get paid to play, daydreaming once or twice a month on the ice is acceptable, doing it once or twice a shift, go back to the AHL and find your big boy pants.) or 3 the system has them playing in a way they are not comfortable and clearly haven't been comfortable in. Yet we still see no adjustments to the system and people still running around mindlessly.
As much as this could be about our fairly young Defensive core it could be about our clear lack of being able to put together a line combo to score issue too. Yes Parise has produced, yes Mikko has too, but so has. . . No one else has really produced(Granted Gilbert and Suter have done some producing but seriously they have another issue to worry about! CLEAR THE PUCK MAN!). Heatley was doing work first few games then lost it. Yeo and most of you said Granlund was playing horrible but I don't think 3 points in 10 games is terrible especially when it is 1 more point than our precious Seto (He needed to be traded yesteryear.). You want to give Granlund a chance to produce but you move him from 2nd center to wing, to 4th line then sit him. Meanwhile you bring up Coyle (who hasn't played terrible but still pointless in 3 games.) and throw him in with the top line? That seems weird. I would think Granlund could play 1st line and play with the 2nd line with Heatley maybe use both of their young fresh legs to help sustain pressure. . . Or perhaps we could stick with a few lines for a few games instead of switching everyone but the first line around. I mean the more you play with someone the more chemistry right? Does it not look like there has been flashes of chemistry here and there but never has a chance to develop because the next day they are split up? Yeo doesn't know what chemistry looks like if it were to slap him in the face.
Now you are probably thinking I have gotten well off the path of if goaltending is the issue. I do not believe it to be and those are some of the reasons. The moment we have people quit looking off at the imaginary chick who is better looking than Katherine Webb and start picking up their man, the moment chemistry develops between more than just Parise and Koivu we might see Backy get more confident back there because he knows the defense will clear the puck, he knows the forwards won't turn over the puck on the blue line and he will know that when he does make a mistake his team has his back and can get him that goal back.
So all in all, the problem doesn't start with goaltending, it starts with coaching, and even arguably higher than that. Fix the system, fix the problem.
