Buch was 100% calling out the system there. You can tell he thinks we're playing some mini-mite bush league garbage.
Why are we the worst first period team in the NHL? Because we go in with some dumbshit system that Bannister is trying to force us to play. Then we get to intermission and someone (Probably Julian) steps up and says, this shit isn't working, let's do X instead, and all of a sudden we come out and look so much better, but by then it generally doesn't matter b/c we're down 1-2 goals at that point.
I have watched 21 out of the 22 games so far this season (Thanks NHL for having NHL Network that no one has and putting games on it), including one in person, and I couldn't tell you wtf we're trying to do in the offensive zone at all. Our forechecking plan seems to be to dump the puck into the corner, send one man in who instantly loses to both defenders converging on the puck, and then allowing them an easy exit.
Edit - here's the Natural Stat Trick xGF/GA of that game. Islanders are on top:
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Bannister talking about how we created chances but needed to bury them is garbage. We got 100% outplayed all game.
