GDT: #9 ⋅ ANA @ NYI ⋅ 4:00 PM PDT

[LuGBuG]

We are 4-4-1 and we can’t score. Imagine when the offense starts clicking more and the goals start going in. With Dostal in net and some offense we can be a real frisky team.

 

[JAHV]

Killorn still seems like he's killing plays. I wasn't able to watch the whole game last night, but there was one shift in particular where he couldn't handle a breakout pass. Then the Ducks got the puck back and he fumbled another pass in the neutral zone. The puck luckily went to a teammate who broke into the zone, drew two defenders and tried to drop it to Killorn who had, for some reason, skated toward one of the defenders rather than taking the space his teammate had made for him. Killorn recovered the puck in the neutral zone and skated with it for a while before either making a bad pass or ineffective dump-in, I forget which.

It was a depressingly bad series of events which was emblematic of his entire season so far. Killorn didn't just forget how to play hockey, so I'm baffled as to what's going on. Does he really have zero chemistry with anyone other than Carlsson (who seems like he can create chemistry with everyone)?

 

[Reveille1984]

Given how our offense has performed over the past half decade, I'd say expecting the goals to flow or some magic clicking is probably a pipe dream. :

Season	GF/GP
2019-2020	2.56
2020-2021	2.21
2021-2022	2.78
2022-2023	2.51
2023-2024	2.48
2024-2025	2.35

I guess optimistically a lot of our forwards couldn't really be playing any worse, but in general watching whatever offensive "system" we're running under Cronin has been pretty gross.

 

[91Fedorov]

Killorn still seems like he's killing plays. I wasn't able to watch the whole game last night, but there was one shift in particular where he couldn't handle a breakout pass. Then the Ducks got the puck back and he fumbled another pass in the neutral zone. The puck luckily went to a teammate who broke into the zone, drew two defenders and tried to drop it to Killorn who had, for some reason, skated toward one of the defenders rather than taking the space his teammate had made for him. Killorn recovered the puck in the neutral zone and skated with it for a while before either making a bad pass or ineffective dump-in, I forget which.

It was a depressingly bad series of events which was emblematic of his entire season so far. Killorn didn't just forget how to play hockey, so I'm baffled as to what's going on. Does he really have zero chemistry with anyone other than Carlsson (who seems like he can create chemistry with everyone)?

It's way too common for guys to fall off for a year after getting married. I don't know why, but it does seem to happen. Terry, now Killorn.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Given how our offense has performed over the past half decade, I'd say expecting the goals to flow or some magic clicking is probably a pipe dream. :

Season	GF/GP
2019-2020	2.56
2020-2021	2.21
2021-2022	2.78
2022-2023	2.51
2023-2024	2.48
2024-2025	2.35

I guess optimistically a lot of our forwards couldn't really be playing any worse, but in general watching whatever offensive "system" we're running under Cronin has been pretty gross.

I expanded on your table to include the NHL average GF/GP as a sort of reference as to how we fare in the league. I used Hockey-Reference.com as the source.

Ducks	Scoring	Avg
Season	Games	Ducks GF/GP		NHL GF Avg	NHL GF/GP Avg	Diff
2019-20	82​	2.56​		208​	2.54​	0.02​
2020-21 COVID	56​	2.21​		162​	2.89​	-0.68​
2021-22	82​	2.78​		255​	3.11​	-0.33​
2022-23	82​	2.51​		258​	3.15​	-0.64​
2023-24	82​	2.48​		253​	3.09​	-0.61​
2024-25	9​	2.35​		31​	3.44​	-1.09​

Yikes! Our scoring is that bad to start this season. If it wasn't for Dostal's heroics, then we would not be a .500 Pts % team today.