Game after game this team is very hard to watch. They have absolutely no offensive flow. So the questions are?
- Is it because of too many new players and time needed to get used to each other
- Are new players not as good as the ones who left
- Is the coaching system in place
- Or all of the above
I'll be at the game tomorrow, so I hope they break out.
Too many new players, when we have same 8 forwards from last season at Top9...?
That's not the answer. I don't buy this theory at all, last season we had much more player changes.
As for now, it's same players we have used to be something else, are suddenly struggling. Like, even Larkin looks bad.
Imo, we are learning a new system currently, and that takes time to gel. Usually it takes ~20 games.
That could kill a season, though but... it has to be done at some point. We have to be better defensively, not a mad-offensive team like at last season.
Imo, the long-term plan has always been
defensively great team and almost impossible to score against, when adding monster Cossa in the net. Like that's the ultimate goal, call it an Yzer-plan or not.
At first, since 2019 they drafted defence-heavy, sizeheavy great skating defencemen (Mo, Ed, Wallinder etc.) then went after monster goalie. And then started drafting more forward-heavy.
Same should go with systems, you build now a great defensive structure, to become that nightmarely good defensive team and the offence will come last.