See I don't know if I necessarily agree with that. I know that the fancy stats say that, but even watching the games the team would be in survival mode 5 on 5 and then would just dominate special teams. Right now even five on five we just look okay. There's been a couple anomalies where we've looked really good but the overwhelming majority of the play when you watch it is just okay. Then mix in the fact that the power play looks like a little bit of a mess right now and we don't have the elite goaltending that we did last year and this team looks exceptionally average. Like are we actually happy that we're just tied going to the third period against the Red wings? Unfortunately that's kind of the situation that the fan base has been pushed into because of the lackluster starts the season where we're looking at moral victories now instead of the expectation that this team would be able to dominate the team like the Red wings. Not even just dominate them on the scoreboard, but be able to dominate the actual gameplay. Other than maybe Tampa in the opener who is this team actually just gone out and completely dominated during a game? Who have they looked assertive against and actually looked like a team that you would expect to challenge for Stanley cup? I'm not okay with what this team is right now, sitting there and saying " we're not losing " is not good enough
