Post-Game Talk: Your 10 "Goats" of this debacle against the Preds

[glenwo2]

Yes.

You can choose 10 because I want people to have the opportunity to choose 10 as there were plenty of candidates.

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[Tao Jersey Jones]

Can we vote for the Jersey jersey?

 

[glenwo2]

Can we vote for the Jersey jersey?

Just added it.

 

[Tao Jersey Jones]

Just added it.

I think it may be really costing the team their identity.

 

[DevHock]

We're getting Geersten against the Flyers, aren't we?

Perhaps Subban on both waves of the powerplay as well.

 

[Eggtimer]

Everyone but Mercer and Vesey played like shit.
Bernier let in a weak goal but was good after that and can’t blame him on the other goals after the soft first one.
An overall crappy game by almost everyone .
Anyone else notice how the other team is starting to key in on Mercer? The Preds seemed to have paid extra attention to him and would always make sure to finish their checks on him and give him an extra little shot. I’m expecting we see more of that as teams realize how good he is.

 

[Whaddagoal]

Can you add turkey hangover to the picklist...?

 

[JK3]

Ha I was going to say all of them but 10 is a good start.

 

[NJDevs26]

No kidding boys, do f***ing better

 

[TheUnseenHand]

Can't keep no showing until the third...

 

[Devs3cups]

Not sure we match up consistently with the best teams in the league. But that’s sure not Nashville. We never really challenged them tonight and Nashville didn’t exactly look animated either. But we just didn’t bring much will to win to this game. None really.

"Consistently" is the key word. When this team is on, they're fast and they threaten a whole lot. But they have a hard time putting on a string of strong efforts.

 

[Auto Pilot]

 

[jkrdevil]

No kidding boys, do f***ing better

Who’s job is it to get the team ready to compete?

 

[Saugus]

What lines are gonna get thrown off? They all suck except for the Mercer line.

Fair, but my point is that we might have too high expectations of Hughes's return solving all our problems. Like we're expecting that he might get a couple of the wingers going who have been wastes of roster space so far, but maybe not. They might just be bad no matter who they're playing with, and that will be an issue.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Ruff needs to coach them out of this or get out of here.

 

[Triumph]

Teams have 10 of these games a year, great teams or teams with great goalies can pull out of a few of them. This is game #3 like this out of 18, a bit concerning but I expect they'll bounce back against the Flyers.

 

[Camille the Eel]

Everyone but Mercer and Vesey played like shit.
Bernier let in a weak goal but was good after that and can’t blame him on the other goals after the soft first one.
An overall crappy game by almost everyone .
Anyone else notice how the other team is starting to key in on Mercer? The Preds seemed to have paid extra attention to him and would always make sure to finish their checks on him and give him an extra little shot. I’m expecting we see more of that as teams realize how good he is.

Mercer has been our best forward all year. Made the big plays for us when we need them. And that’s a little scary truly.

 

[ninetyeight]

Don't think anyone has said that this team's a playoff team yet.

A lot of people said that after the panthers and islanders wins. But whatever if everyone is fine with us winning every 6th game then I guess I'll shut up. I'm just thinking they shouldn't be this bad with this roster

 

[Whaddagoal]

Everyone but Mercer and Vesey played like shit.
Bernier let in a weak goal but was good after that and can’t blame him on the other goals after the soft first one.
An overall crappy game by almost everyone .
Anyone else notice how the other team is starting to key in on Mercer? The Preds seemed to have paid extra attention to him and would always make sure to finish their checks on him and give him an extra little shot. I’m expecting we see more of that as teams realize how good he is.

THis game looked pretty bad for good chunks of it (at least whatever parts I saw).

My main themes from these losses:
-Horrible passing skills, both sending and receiving. Pucks shot out too far ahead of skater, or into skates.
-No rebound presence. Either bad positioning completely (usually too close in/deep near goalie), or jittery stick/hands and they can't corral pucks in any meaningful way.
-Really bad decision making ONCE they get puck with space and time. Too many quick passes wide to a winger who is half-covered. Just skate the puck in when there is space, instead of going wide with a winger who is already half-stick checked.
-Defensive play that looks like Hynes system. (AKA. NASreddine is the only common thing here, why Ruff allows this shit, I don't know).

-Is Recchi working to help Pittsburgh/Philly/Boston out, or is he working for this damn team? The PP is horrendous, and the PP lineup choices are HORRENDOUS. Get skill guys out there at least if they lose you can argue and say that you freaking tried to put the best out there. Putting Vesey out there and having Bratt and Mercer on the bench (or Zacha in previous games until last PP) is bad asset management. I don't care how good Vesey is playing, and its no diss to him, but there is no way he should be up on the PP instead of Mercer, Bratt, or Zacha.

Wake the f*** up for these games, if this team wants to be in the post-season this ain't the formula. Games like this one, and these lagged starts are going to haunt the team down the stretch.......

 

[JK3]

Smith didn't play and poor Gauthier, he's not even with the team.

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[Saugus]

Whoever said the Flyers game is a must win was right. Absolutely cannot drop more points or else this murderous division will bury us fast.

 

[Camille the Eel]

Ruff needs to coach them out of this or get out of here.

Well the effort really has been there this year I think. This is the first game like this I can think of. Maybe Calgary but I did think we made the effort that night, we just played poorly. So I don’t fault Ruff. It happens sometimes. Think the holiday had an effect?

 

[Auto Pilot]

Vesey wasn’t good. And giving him the amount of time ruff gave him def contributed to this bad game

he didn’t generate anything

 

[MadDevil]

To be fair, being sluggish after a holiday is not unprecedented, so hopefully it was more that and they can come back better next game.