AddyTheWrath
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Couple of thoughts from someone who attended the game last night:
- Thought we started really well, but even after we went up 2-0 I was waiting for a collapse. I think I’m something like 1-6 this year at Rogers. Just a ridiculously terrible home record, and the players will continue their platitudes about “wanting to make this a tough place to play in”. Yeah right. It hasn’t been a tough place to play in for the better part of 2 decades. I guess there is just something in the water that gives these guys brain damage when they step onto the ice.
- Defense clearly is the bane of our team right now. Felt sorry to see Skinner get pulled when I didn’t think he had much of a chance on most of the goals against. A typical Bouchebag penalty to give the Kraken momentum, then an immediate collapse with FOUR goals against in a single period. Just abysmal. And for some reason the Kraken were always able to get behind the last defender. I’ve had high hopes for Bouchard but he has been absolute junk this year. Terrible defensively and a no-show on the offensive side has made him pretty useless overall. It’s telling that I actually thought Broberg has started to carry that pairing
- Speaking of Broberg, he is starting to look better by my eye but we don’t have the time to wait to see what he’ll become. He needs to be dangled for a real upgrade now. In fact, we definitely still need 2 more top 4 defensemen to round out this group. How Holland doesn’t see this is baffling. Or maybe he does and he’s just too incompetent to do anything about it
- Just a frustrating, frustrating team. JP, Foegele, Yamamoto all useless. Even McLeod and Holloway have been disappointing. Janmark and Kostin have showed flashes but lack consistency. Continues to irk me that we don’t try Kostin in the top 6. FFS he was dropped to the fourth line last night with Ryan and the ghost of JP.
It seems like our entire team is just 4 top 6 players and a bunch of fourth line / waiver wire plugs, along with a coach who is badly wearing away his shine and an atrocious defense that makes our goaltending look even worse than it is.
Most teams have players that can step up when a top 6er goes down but our scouting is so ridiculously horrible that we still have 0 ability to identify players that can even be temporarily inserted into those roles. Just the softest group of losers that also somehow completely lack skill or finishing ability. Holland you’ve really achieved the impossible here. Imagine being able to inherit a player who puts up points that we haven’t seen since the turn of the century and you’re still struggling to make the playoffs as a f***ing wildcard team.
- Thought we started really well, but even after we went up 2-0 I was waiting for a collapse. I think I’m something like 1-6 this year at Rogers. Just a ridiculously terrible home record, and the players will continue their platitudes about “wanting to make this a tough place to play in”. Yeah right. It hasn’t been a tough place to play in for the better part of 2 decades. I guess there is just something in the water that gives these guys brain damage when they step onto the ice.
- Defense clearly is the bane of our team right now. Felt sorry to see Skinner get pulled when I didn’t think he had much of a chance on most of the goals against. A typical Bouchebag penalty to give the Kraken momentum, then an immediate collapse with FOUR goals against in a single period. Just abysmal. And for some reason the Kraken were always able to get behind the last defender. I’ve had high hopes for Bouchard but he has been absolute junk this year. Terrible defensively and a no-show on the offensive side has made him pretty useless overall. It’s telling that I actually thought Broberg has started to carry that pairing
- Speaking of Broberg, he is starting to look better by my eye but we don’t have the time to wait to see what he’ll become. He needs to be dangled for a real upgrade now. In fact, we definitely still need 2 more top 4 defensemen to round out this group. How Holland doesn’t see this is baffling. Or maybe he does and he’s just too incompetent to do anything about it
- Just a frustrating, frustrating team. JP, Foegele, Yamamoto all useless. Even McLeod and Holloway have been disappointing. Janmark and Kostin have showed flashes but lack consistency. Continues to irk me that we don’t try Kostin in the top 6. FFS he was dropped to the fourth line last night with Ryan and the ghost of JP.
It seems like our entire team is just 4 top 6 players and a bunch of fourth line / waiver wire plugs, along with a coach who is badly wearing away his shine and an atrocious defense that makes our goaltending look even worse than it is.
Most teams have players that can step up when a top 6er goes down but our scouting is so ridiculously horrible that we still have 0 ability to identify players that can even be temporarily inserted into those roles. Just the softest group of losers that also somehow completely lack skill or finishing ability. Holland you’ve really achieved the impossible here. Imagine being able to inherit a player who puts up points that we haven’t seen since the turn of the century and you’re still struggling to make the playoffs as a f***ing wildcard team.
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