Just finished catching up on this thread. It's a doozie. This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but it seems like the King's are & couple small tweaks & or Talbot getting back to average from going on a heater.
I'm actually a little onboard with this idea. The stats show that when the Kings were rolling, they weren't doing anything that was unsustainable. The line-up, by and large, is also full of players who I like. Even Fiala I really like as a player for us, even though he's been very down lately.
The main problem is that the fundamental ethos of management prevents small changes or tweaks. They as a whole have no inkling to the issues plaguing the team right now, but are also too cowardly to experiment on fixes.
1. Why have we completely abandoned Fiala playing with Dubois? We tried it for some games then just dumped it? I get sticking to what works when winning, but why not try it when we are losing?
2. Byfield centering Laf and JAD had a 71% GF. Why not try this again?
3. Moore Danault Grundstrom has a 76.9% GF. Yet this has been abandoned too
Based on just the GF stats, you could ice something like this
Kempe-Kopitar-Byfield 54.4% GF
Moore-Danault-Grundstrom 76.9% GF
Fiala-Dubois-Lafrierre 56.3% GF
JAD-Lewis-Kaliyev 61.9% GF
Yet something like this will never be tried, even when we're losing every game. It seems to me that Management would rather barely lose every game then risk get blown out trying something new. And that is emblematic of a loser culture than a winning one. it's an org full of unpassionate, risk adverse, losers
