What a terrible effort after being challenged by management. It’s like they are hoping that Drury is bluffing and calling him on it. I’m hoping he does have something planned because this team needs major changes.
The defensive zone play is as bad as I’ve ever seen. They seem to be near opposing players and in the vicinity of proper position, but the opposing team always seems to be able to pass the puck to high danger areas and get shots through. They aren’t actually impeding the other team at all. They’re just there.
The only bright spots were Cuylle, Kakko at center, Berard, and Jones had some nice flashes of play.
The rest of the team was abysmal. The usual suspects gave us more of the same. And Lafreniere and Trocheck are playing too much like Panarin. The line worked when they would do the things that Panarin doesn’t do. But now all three of them want to hang around the perimeter and look to thread the needle with a perfect pass. If he’s healthy, I would put Chytil back on that line to get some straight ahead play out of them.
