Vaak has 8 perfectly fine games and the 9th shits the bed to an embarrassing degree. He's had I think 5 impossibly awful games out of 45, the rest of which were fine. He's a 6th D.
Today it was made clear he doesn't speak to the players on the bench during games, either. Plus we all know he doesn't go into the locker room after games. Maybe he just was working on perfecting his Jedi mind skills.
As much as I'm one to pile on Igor, he was hung out to dry so many times today. It was almost as if the game plan was to intentionally leave the slot wide open.
I don't really think he's that bad. Our goalie is awful & the forwards are terrible at D. Not to mention he's playing decent in like the worst system known to man. Perhaps in a more simplistic system with forwards who were defensively responsible and a goalie that's not Swiss cheese he'd look better.
Housely wasnt a defensive dman when he played and a liability. It did not make sense to hire him. They'd be better off with Dan Girardi or Staal with no coaching experience
Trading for a useless dman in Soucey was way worse when DeHann and Jones are better than hil
Cost practically nothing and can be traded or buried at any time, literal non-issue.
It was Lavvy's "system" that was the problem. Housley only followed ordered.
He tied up 18.5 million to two absolute anchors this year, Laf wouldn’t sniff that contract in FA, and neither would Igor. Just moronic stuff from the FO an all year, moving Trouba being the only smart thing they did, but they turned around and killed it.
