Walking away from Zadorov and Lindholm was wise. Not springing for upgrades on defense wasn't. Hronek and Quinn are the only worthwhile defensemen. Without Quinn, they're among the league's very worst teams.
In their defense they’ve dealt with a bunch of injuries on top of some underperforming players.
The biggest losses have been Hronek and Demko.
Quinn’s game took a sizable hit when he lost Hronek, for ~2 months, at the end of November. Tyler Myers is an enormous step down as a partner.
Demko was out until Dec 10th with a knee injury and is probably lucky to be 2-2-2 after a rough start.
Demko left his last game after a collision, though he’s apparently not re-injured. (Just back spasms! No biggie!)
They got a great start out of Lankinen and then
rode him into the ground.
JT Miller was coming in with a LBI and f***ed off for a month, missing 10 games.
Pettersson has been hampered by an unknown injury, then was finally put on the IR and has missed 5 games.