They may not be but you need a mix and we do not have enough. Pretty sure Tre agrees and why he was in on Zadorov and there is lots of smoke around Tanev.
Exactly, and you need a commitment to team D. It’s not just the D men, but the forwards too. You don’t blow the zone early, you cover for pinching D, you work hard in the D zone.
Our commitment to D has been atrocious, and often our effort overall has been unacceptable. There just isn’t a consistent commitment to excellence. Sure, we can come back down from 5, when they turn it on and start playing…. But the problem is a lack of effort until we turn it on.
Every addition this year, has been to improve the offense, with defensively weak players, so this result isn’t shocking, particularly when you match it with our inconsistent effort players we already had.
We are going to require the addition of some defensively strong players, and more importantly, a consistent commitment to team D, and a consistent effort. Ultimately though, it doesn’t matter who we add, or subtract, until our team embraces playing for excellence at both ends of the rink, for 60 minutes a game.
Teams built around a strong team D, can make an average goalie look great, and teams with very weak team D, can make an average goalie look terrible.
I’m not saying Samsonov has been good, or acceptable, I’m saying it doesn’t matter who you swap him for, with the way our team plays. It’s attempting to put a bandaid on a broken limb.
Fix the cause of the problem, not the side effects.
