No use in writing up a game report, everyone's effort was god awful. Last year the team was disgusted with losing and everyone came together to wash that taste of defeat away. Everyone was afraid of what a poor effort meant, and how it could lead to sloppy play and a reversion to the way things were before.
This year, the team is too high on itself, and the effort is inconsistent as heck. If someone made a mistake last year, guys at the bench were yelling at each other to fix it and get it together. This year, nothing.
These home ice performances have been abysmal, and aren't on any specific player or coach. Rather, the collective needs to have a closed door meeting and talk about what it means to play for this hockey team, and if they're going to let teams come into their barn and continue to push them around.
This soft brand of hockey needs to nipped in the butt now. The underlying metrics are there showing how good this team can be, they just need to get their shit together as a group.
Oh, and probably get a defensemen. This Soucy-Myers nonsense can't go on any longer, its abysmal to watch and you could tell Tocchet was fed up too with how often he split them up today.