where to start? hard to know exactly, but a few random thoughts.
..we have now lost 6 in a row on the road. 6. especially concerning when we have played more home games than road games.
..this is exactly what it was like to be a pred fan in about 01-02. every game you hope somehow we luck in enough goals to win.
..we are icing a complete team of complimentary players at best, with about 3 forwards with no business being on an nhl roster.
..when I was preaching early on about needing another elite level forward, well situations like this is why. after arvy and Forsberg we don't really have any.
..every 1st line rush seemed to end with fiala. for a supposed good stick handler he loses the puck almost whenever he touches it.
..to be fair, fiala is terrible playing the right wing since he has to play everything off his forehand.
..johanson -4, fiala -3.
..on a team that has been so good even strength, fiala is a mind blowing -10. while say sissons is a +16. should tell you something.
..without good wingers johansen looks disinterested.
..when Hartman and sissons are your most dangerous forwards night after night, well that tells you something.
..it's entirely possibly that with this current lineup we are icing the worst team in the NHL right now.
..goal scoring from our d-men has totally dried up right when we need them most.
..d-men goal scoring is always streaky it seems. it's why it's dangerous to depend on d-men scoring for your offense
..saros has allowed the same amount of goals in half as many minutes played as rinne.
..we can talk bad luck whatever. but 3.35, .885 is the worst in the league.
..maybe our window is shorter than we hope.
..saros isn't allowing soft goals, but he also isn't stopping many of the 50/50 chances. you have to have that or you give up 3-4-5 goals every game.
..obviously the wide deflection goal killed us. saros had moved totally out of the goalmouth on that one for no reason. was actually totally outside the near post.
..willy and mase. are total schills for the team.
..every goal against was bad luck, 'he had no chance'. every goal for was 'what a great goal'
..for goodness sake be critical sometime.
..when we are playing poorly I hate listening to these guys. hate it. which is a shame because they are 'nice' guys.
..willy simply doesn't know any better, but mase seems too close to the players. friends, not an analyst.
right now, well it just isn't fun. actually sort of dread most games.
