Down 4-0 and Zibanejad tries a behind the back pass
He's been absolute trash tonight and much of the season, but don't worry.
Sacred cow PP1 must remain untouched as is for all time.
Igor and much of the D have been awful tonight.
This is part of the reason I want Tarasenko back - how many of our shooters can beat an NHL goalie clean, without a screen, deflection, rebound, or a setup pass? Seriously, how many forwards can carry in, cut to the middle, and rip a wrister past an NHL goalie?
One - Mika - and he refuses to take wrist shots off the rush. Our even strength offense is highly dependent on either royal road passes, deflections, rebounds, or scoring off 2nd chances from broken plays, and that doesn't work in the playoffs long term - even though a lot of goals are scored that way - because you're relying on defensive mistakes and puck luck, which makes randomness likely to eat you alive in a short series.
This team is not winning the Cup unless it adds another scoring winger, fixes the 3C spot or gets Chytil back and he actually stays healthy, stops playing Trouba 25 minutes a night and puts Miller with Fox or acquires an LD, fixes the bottom 6 in such a way that Bonino and Goodrow are not getting any kind of significant minutes, and either gets Igor right, or decides to ride Quick down the stretch and figures out a way to keep his conditioning where it needs to be for him to see all those minutes.