Consider me on the Knobtrain , at least as an interim
theres no system, no attention to detail, no creativity. our 2 1st and 2nd overall picks never score.
3. 52 Goal Chris Kreider/The powerplay
but it all makes sense now how he's just 'randomly' canned
I don't even think it is that they look like this. Every team goes through rough patches, but you can see the dysfunction and disconnect with this team. Even in the scrums. I know people downplay that stuff but a "team" doesnt let two guys carry the load on this shit, nor do they watch their Norris winner get mauled and just stand around. Again, that trouba presser confirmed everything to me that I have thought the past 10-15 games
We lost a lot of glue guys. Reaves and Strome were most definitely leading in that department.
I still think it's the staff. And I think just putting letters on guys that get points in dangerous. Panarin having a letter is a joke.
I don't know if I would agree with that. I think Reeves had purpose here as far as adding a swagger to a listless group. I think people might forget just how bland the group was prior to the Washington debacle. Truthfully there's no reason to need to rely on a guy like Reeves at this point to bring the swagger to the group. This is the point where ideally integrated laffy and seeing other personalities rise to the top. I mean I look at the captain and see a guy that this year has risen up from his role last year regarding his leadership role. We all know and can see that he's playing her so that's something different. But my issue with the organization is that if you had a core group of players 2 years ago and felt that they needed an injection of swagger and attitude which is what made you go out and get Reeves in the first place then how could you think that the same group would somehow create or maintain a swagger on their own? That was supposed to be the whole purpose of the next wave of young leaders and their role through the future. Unfortunately the organization and the coaching staff just continue to neuter them. They look lost on the ice and I'm sure that they're lost off the ice at this point. And I don't think it's at all that they aren't trying, they just don't have an actual direction to lead them to success right now, and the bigger issue with that is that the team is not going to have success the way that it's structured unless those kids do. It was one thing last year where they had all the additions and can insulate those kids and they could be viewed as a bonus, but there's no depth whatsoever through this roster and those kids have to be contributors and know that they are important. Right now nothing about how they are used or deployed sends a message to them that they are important. Jimmy vesey on the top line instead of the fourth line where you could thrive and be a good contributor is a perfect example of this. You just look up and down this team and unless they are going to commit to some substantial changes in deployment and utilization of the players they're doomed. I will not be able to understand how they could look at the roster during the off season in realize that the kids had to be prominent contributors in the top six for the team to have success and then turn around and remove them from those roles. Sometimes you just have to let kids go out there and play and make mistakes and learn, not over coach the shit out of them. That's a big part of why I'm so glad otter was sent back to junior. His game is based around having an edge and right now in this environment he would have his balls clipped off
I think we agree in general. With the bandaid comment I meant that Reaves was brought in to toughen up the group, along with Tinordi, Nemeth, McKegg, Blais the same summer. But nothing was fundamentally changed structurally and now that Reaves is gone the same issues reappear (this is not a Reaves discussion but more about how the internal contradictions were never truly fixed).
I don't think you can point to any one area & definitively say it's this or that. There's dysfunction that has crept into every aspect of the organization. Changing the coaching staff will shock these spoiled assholes awake for about 2-3 weeks, but there's almost no solution to the NMCs that have this core locked up for years to come. It's going to get uglier before it gets better.
100% agreed except for the firs part talking about toughening up the group.
I know they were bad but at the time there was talk about having the brawn to face the Caps in the first game of the season following "the Wilson incident" at the end of the previous. Lots of brawn brought in, playing capability was secondary clearly. So "toughening" was used in that sense. That was Drury's first summer and had Sather involved I have no doubt after the firing of Gorton and JD.
