Past 5 games for the young Cs
Has Joey ever played significant time at wing? That could be a line thats pretty good at puck management
Has Joey ever played significant time at wing? That could be a line thats pretty good at puck management
If he's a PPG player and helping the team win why change things? All of the lines are producing, leave them alone.
The last two games have been some of the best offensive games we've strung together probably in quite some time.
The line combinations are a bit more fluid during the game. In the bottom 6, there is some shuffling where Sissons goes back to C with Trenin and Jeannot at W for multiple shifts. This shelters Smith, Parssinen, and Novak.
Actually heard the same thing. Also of note, the day of the St Louis game, Hynes had meeting with the team, that he led. The next day, was the meeting led by the players, not by Hynes.
It's harder to list the guys who must be thrilled with the way this season has gone. Smith. Saros? Maybe Parssinen, although even he could have his head on a swivel.
Maybe its more of a "Poile obviously gonna stick by him and we are miserable sucking so lets give it our all in this crappy system and see what happens."I wonder how often these things ever truly "heal"? In my work experience, if a manager "loses the room", it's likely s/he has lost it forever. Mostly because it's rare for adults to truly change very much. We might make a concerted effort to meet a certain deadline, or appreciate a new habit of pizza lunches, or whatever adjustment, in the short term. Long term, though, nobody forgets what went before. And the manager usually reverts to form eventually.
But anyway, I would say if anybody was going to be aware of any imminence of Hynes "losing the room" it had better be Poile. And if Poile ever became aware of this, I don't think he could have kept Hynes around. That's a point of no return. I also don't know how you "almost completely" lose the room. You lose it or you don't. If any significant number of players/team leaders have started to have doubts, it's already lost. Otherwise you maybe have one or two malcontents instead of it being a case of "losing the room"? There's usually one or two malcontents in any group.
Or maybe the eight million dollar babies need to grow up and start playing better so the whole team can enjoy a successful season? Remember at the beginning of the season when people were fussing that the top players weren't getting benched for screwing up? And now it's horrible coaching that the top players mad about their icetime getting cut? Which do we want, the country club where players are always happy or accountability where lazy/selfish player lose icetime?
Sounds like the “leadership” group aren’t very good leaders. If the players are getting lazy and comfortable and not playing well and the leadership group isn’t addressing that immediately, then maybe they need to find me leaders.
Many of the veteran leaders are the problem and have been for years. Bit of a catch 22 when they're the most experienced players leading a transitional team trying to get younger and more dynamic while locked into contracts that prevent moving the problem out.
Agreed, it is interesting though that having the players pledge to start being accountable to each other and play the game properly has yielded such positive results. No systems or coaching changes, just a good ole fashioned come to Jesus meeting.
