The issue is that their style of play always resulted in a series going too long, so you were left hoping for the best in a game 7. If they played a simpler game, with better penalty killing, a few of those series would not have gone 7 games. Instead, they kept trying to succeed through possession and permitted play, and no matter how many times it didn't work, the coach never used the next season to change their style of play. So it was rinse and repeat. That won't happen with berube.
Of course they will and the PP will be back to one being "get the puck over to 34," which creates the standing around thing they do. That results in the extra time they take moving the puck. This allows the two forwards to creep to the blueline and eventually force one of the point guys into a mistake thus killing vital seconds.
Indeed you did
They have had a couple down games but I think their consistency has been better and the games where they do play well, have had better overall structure.
Bouchard is trash. Overrated
You always hope for the best, but more often than not we've gotten complete garbage instead. There is no excuse for losing every single series that came down to one deciding game, none.
I agree the overall structure is better. Consistency's been kind of meh though, if it wasn't then we'd be better than 10th overall ATM. JMHO.
If one of our D gave a pitiful effort like he did on the 2nd McMann goal...we would be screaming for him to be traded...he is awful defensively...my God...
He was playing for the pass. Left foot on the post, getting ready to push off and cross when the pass came. As someone said on reddit yesterday, there are uncontacted tribes on far-away islands that also thought Marner was going to pass.
