Can I "Like" this several more times? It's really getting old. Very very old. Why don't we include the hot streak from last season?
Did I say right this second he should be traded? Abysmal comment? This is a harsh reality with a player who is 27 years old and (correction) will be 29* years old when his contract expires. This team is not anywhere closer to competing for a cup this year. There is a strong chance they dont even make playoffs. So who f***ing cares if he reverts back to his 19-20 form? In fact that is leverage as a reason to move him this season, maybe even sooner than the trade deadline so that the acquiring team has him on their roster longer, thus increasing the return we could get. We can then use our multitude of assets to acquire another center, likely younger and under contract or team control. It is the same thing we did with Brassard which resulted in Mika Zibanejad. This isn’t an overreaction, these are the circumstances. Better start coming to grips with reality pal. Nothing more abysmal than being naive.
DQ is not making adjustments. He is just in a default mode. I 100% thought the same thing last night when OT started. Mika was horrific. He had no business being out there. Keep his ass on the bench. I dont care if we lost with Blackwell and Lafreniere out there. They deserved to be out there more than Mika. A lot of players did.
Yeah haha I know I was just sorta making a point referencing the Buffalo game there.
It's the forward support and honestly the blunders at the offensive blue line. Trouba specializes in it. Panarin had trouble last night. Smith turned one over. Not getting the puck deep and then getting burned on transition and the forwards not picking up assignments in the d zone.
The idea here seems to be that if a young forward doesn’t step into the NHL and play great right away, it’s their coaches fault. I just don’t see the proof for it as much as I see people finding more reasons to complain about Quinn.
If these guys are ruined by a few games without Pp time or a game in the offwing, that’s a big problem with them as individuals
I and a few others have been harping on this since the beginning. East-west instead of north-south like the bottom 6. It's not so much Quinn as the tendency of the top 6 to want to play a pretty passing game if the bottom 6 are doing straight lines consistently. Quinn gives these top 6 a lot of rope to do as they want and to work out their issues themselves, and that's the real problem fundamentally. You hear about it from every coach, not just Quinn, they want to allow artistic freedom on offense as long as they're responsible on defense and structure. That's always been the "deal" between offensive players and coaches everywhere. So I don't necessarily agree that Quinn is to blame in this aspect, but he is definitely responsible for personnel deployment and in-game decisions. Case in point: he rolls out Mika in OT, who had been terrible all game. Meanwhile, Smith, not great, did not see ice the whole 3rd.
