Yup, I don't know that any coach could get any more from this group. And Bertuzzi and Domi have turned out to be poor signings, especially Bert!
I'm no keefe lover at all, I think he has been the weak link come playoffs time for this team, but idk man we haven't given him much, had the players been like they should've he should've been able to build a team that scores a ton, and has some issues on the backend. we could then address that at the deadline, but as of now our depth guys cannot score or defend. I do think some of the goals we are giving up are bad structure and some bad line calls, but alot of it is also indiviual mistakes
he has a solid dman in benoit that was added and a backup in jones, everyone else is ranging from meh to horrible. domi and bert isn't just on keefe, i do think a bit more line shuffling should be done as it can't get worse than this, maybe domi-marner as that worked well when they played together last time, but those two, especially bertuzzi have been awful. Keefe's gameplans aren't the reason bertuzzi has blown 4-5 completly empty nets, including last night which could've given us a 4-3 lead. Bertuzzi has been as bad of a signing as ritchie was
As an outsider, I'd like to know why your coach doesn't try to run these lines or something similar for a game or two:
Nylander Matthews Marner
Bertuzzi Tavares Domi
Knies Jarnkrok Holmberg
Robertson Kampf Gregor
you'd see a 50 point tavares there. He is barely at a 60 point pace with a 110 point player or 95 point player
tavares is very useless without nylander or marner. He cannot get to prime scoring chances with the puck and he cannot pass it to players who are there. He is ok at standing in front of the net when a dynamic skater is doing alot of the work and getting the attention and he can be an annoyance to the goalie and grab some rebounds,