Wow just Wow a week ago everybody is picking apart Nylander, dumping on Sparks, we were 6-1 now lose two games yeah I know not pretty but for F sakes I can't believe some of the crap that I'm reading, Fire Babcock, this guy sucks, that guy sucks, the defense sucks, Marners too small, Kadri is useless etc and etc. freakin negative like Ive ever seen, our team only 3 seasons ago was a complete rebuild Nylander, Marner, and Mathews accelerated huge for this teams success also adding a goaltender, they are still pimple faced kids that got us to the playoffs 2 years consecutive, teams are now aware if they play the hard fore check and heavy on the body with no space on our team that the our team get rattled and make poor decisions with the puck and take away our speed, we also have alot of guys who have dropped in their play not firing on all cylinders and not willing to get their nose dirty losing a lot of puck battles and not willing to take a hit to make the play with turn overs between the blue lines. This team needs to get hungrier to win with full 60 minute effort, the 4th line is the only ones that put forth that high intensity fore check and pursuit of the puck in recent games while the rest did it in small amounts that is not going to win hockey games. They are going to have to figure how to combat the heavy fore check Boston did the same to us last playoffs, Everybody even the skilled guys are going to have to take hits and get their nose into the grey areas and win puck battles to have any success, thinking that you can out score your opponent with no work ethic will not last I think it was Babcock who stated this earlier on. The hockey insider Idiots who said this is a Stanley cup contender team this year made everybodies head fat and put a lot of undue pressure, thats all they accomplished.
