Nashville is clearly a much better team than us so playing a good game against them is going to be inherently a lot more difficult but HOLY HELL...
1) Toews is punching in and punching out every shift now. It looks like he can’t wait to get off the ice.
2) whatever this team is doing offensively needs to be changed. Lackadaisical dump-ins, awful zone entries, cycle game sucks, no skill or creativity. They look like the opposite of dangerous whenever they’ve got the puck
3) I’m starting to buy into the idea that the Hawks are not physical enough. Not even in the sense that they’re not hitting guys, but they are constantly getting out-muscled and/or out-worked which I think has cascading effects on the rest of our offensive.
Again, Nashville is a great defensive team so to get through them you have to out work them and the Hawks we’re having none of that tonight. It’s hard to generate any sort of offense when they’re getting shoved off pucks and getting pushed around down low. Which I think is why they gave up 51 shots and only put up 20 (???) themselves.
4) Defense, PK, and Lehner all looked pretty good tonight so at least there’s that.