At times it's just so painful to read some of these comments. The lack of patience and understanding of how a team is built...oh, what's the use. Best to laugh, cause otherwise you'd cry. How some of the folks who have to answer to these types of comments every day don't lose their ***** is beyond me. 5 games in, 5!
Could apply to a lot of posts in this thread
With a side ofNo. some of them need this
like i can't even even with these people.
This is progressing perfectly. This is exactly what all of us should want.
Our young players are growing and looking great. And the team is failing. PERFECT!!!!
The rebuild isn't finished yet. One more bottom out season in the very least would be great for the rebuild.
Keep scoring young guys. Keep failing team. It's perfect.
Perspective... I love it...I was flipping a coin the other day.. Landed on heads 5 times in a row.
The blame for this loss goes like this:
Babcock
Defense
Andersen
Babcock has Hunwick (His pet) and Polak out there during the dying minutes of a game where we are imploding and the obvious happens. Then he just overlooks Nylander in the shootout, who scored two goals.
Defense is just putrid. Main reason in every game we've lost. Doesn't matter what pair. There is hardly no defensive acumen on any of them. I only have marginal good things to say about Zaitsev who seems the most defensively responsible but who is being drowned by a garbage player (Hunwick). Probably the only one who takes the body and separates it from the puck.
Andersen just looks bad. Over committing, over aggressive, down to quick for his size, no ability to get that glove up in time, horrible rebound control. Just looks bad out there. His performance with that defense in-front of him means he isn't getting any breaks out there. You put a rebound out and it's on the other teams stick, you can count on that. This game he was outstanding in OT but putrid in the SO (Got beat every time, but Kane missed the net). Every goal in the SO was a lobster over the glove, too.
Zaitsev is really good
One of the main reasons I put so little faith in advanced stats.
Apparently Zaitsev's a-Stats look horrible, but the eye-test tells me he's been our best Dman.
If he had a decent partner you could have at least one half way good pairing.
Rielly/Zaitsev has to happen.
Rielly is the best of the worst. He's not great defensively himself, but he's better than Gardiner.
Gardiner/Marinicin
Carrick/--- (Polak/Hunwick/Corrado rotation)
I mean, even having Marin up that high is making me feel sick, but a Carrick/Gardiner pairing would be a disaster.
Polak/Hunwick should never be higher than 5/6 and never more than 18 minutes a night. Hunwick shouldn't even be getting close to that. I'd rather Polak over him in every situation.