I think the way they play is a problem, yes, but positing up and looking for a homerun pass is the system.
100%
Now I'm going to take this a step further. This organization had absolutely no vision and no creative passing built into it when bread showed up. Bread brought a swagger and a vision to him that unlocked a passing creativity throughout the roster when he first got here. Players follow his lead. Since he has become a perimeter player the rest of the players have followed suit. I don't understand how people are unable to see the change. I'm not trying to dump this all on him, I understand that things happen to players that affect how they play as they get older and deal with injuries in the professional careers, but at some point the organization has to establish what is an acceptable level of commitment and willingness from its players. These guys get treated like absolute kings by this organization, it's ridiculous how they all act as if they can't go into dirty areas of the ice that are hard to plan. When bread was willing to do it other players would do it, since he's become unwilling to go into those areas other players watch and follow suit. And a kickery to all of this is that bread is still getting all the power play time in the world while he continues to set a bad example that other players are following at 5v5. There's a level of blame that goes to him but truthfully with the injury that he had it's understandable that he adjusted how he played. It's unacceptable for the coaching staff to not adjust standards for him and reinforced standards for other players.
The first 10 minutes were bad, the next 10 were fine.
He was also responsible for goal #1 - his gross turnover led to the faceoff.
I agree on your first sentence but some things are just bigger than hockey. Again he is still 13-4-4. If Halak wasn't 1-6-1 our season would look a lot different at this point.
I'd take him back in a heartbeat.Jagr still better than anyone on our team
I don’t think that’s how that works. Listen, Trouba is an Oaf, but it’s a new play. The players on the ice are responsible at that time.
You are counting 2 defensemen, Kravs who has played in like 5 games, and Chytil who has missed about 10 games with injury.
f*** death, marry taxes, KILL THE KID LINE
I just posted about this, but this team has followed what bread has done since he got here. When he got here the players here followed his creative side and tried to think outside of the box and be more creative. At that time he was still willing to penetrate and go into hard areas of the ice. Since his injury he's not willing to do that and all the other players are basically following suit except for a couple. It's completely on the staff in the organization that they haven't held other players accountable. Everybody within that organization knows about bread. It's ridiculous that everybody's being let off the hook to follow in the footsteps that he's been allowed to go to now. He is a perimeter player and he's going to remain that way. We've seen it with other players that have had head injuries. The issue is that the rest of the roster is following suit on him. Either a message has to be sent to him on some level or a message sent to the rest of the roster, but the overall way in which this core plays and is prepared is just completely unacceptable. It's the same thing now that it was the first week of the season. In the first week of the season people were defending it and I can understand why coming off of the run last year, but there's things that you could see right from the get-go and even in the scrimmages that were streamed that screamed issues because players kept staying on the outside. We've continued that now into 30 games into the season. We can beat bad teams or teams that are missing their best players, but we're going to struggle against above average teams, and the majority of the rest of our schedule is against above average teams. We have the hardest schedule remaining for every team in the league. We are in trouble
To be completely honest, never never never understood the total rebuild.
no doubt just don't know the solution. Obviously play him every game outside of the metro area because he is a much different goalie right now when outside of a 60 mile radius from his home
The Devils had zero shots in the second half. It wasn't that bad and without Trouba we might even be up a goal.
