GDT: Preds vs Edmonton Oilers (Oct 31 - 7:00)

[Armourboy]

No, but somehow I'm sure we'll screw that up too. "You want Tomsino for a conditional 6th round pick *next year*? DONE!"

Nah we will just waive him and lose him for nothing.

 

[Kat Predator]

Nah we will just waive him and lose him for nothing.

As long as we feel we tried him everywhere, it's all good.

 

[Mass]

Somehow they're going backwards. So sloppy with the passes, running into each other, don't even know what to call their attempts at defense. Feels just as bad as watching a Hynes team, or somehow worse. It's really hard to envision what Brunette wants this specific group to do on the ice. Other than pinch with no regard for human life and hope it works out.

 

[101st_fan]

The worst 5on5 goal scoring in the league correlating to a terrible record = least shocking fact combo you'll encounter today.

 

[Armourboy]

Somehow they're going backwards. So sloppy with the passes, running into each other, don't even know what to call their attempts at defense. Feels just as bad as watching a Hynes team, or somehow worse. It's really hard to envision what Brunette wants this specific group to do on the ice. Other than pinch with no regard for human life and hope it works out.

It's worse than Hynes. At least with Hynes if the guys were struggling he would circle the wagons, have his Dmen be more conservative, he would drive home to his forwards to be more responsible and then he would just hope we could get a goal or two somehow.

Brunette has literally changed nothing other than to roll players around. His Dmen continue to pinch, try and dig pucks out of corners and drive the net. He continues to try and play an uptempo game with an older team that should be playing smart rather than to try and run with the best skaters in hockey.

 

[nullednumbed]

Not one to usually call for a coaching change...but this season is quickly slipping away.

Might as well try and get a shot in the arm before there's just too much ground to catch up.

With the standard 'its still early' caveat, I am putting a lot of this on Trotz personally. From the beginning I was not thrilled with signing all of these old dudes to big money no-move deals. And I suppose I will always be sore over the way things turned out with giving Saros that bad contract and giving up on Askarov. Not saying it's easy, but prior to moving him was there not any single option out there to use him and the boatload of picks/prospects they have to find a decent Center?

As far as the team, the 4th line is as bad as I've seen in a long time, and while hoping its gets better, Stamkos does not look comfortable at all in Brunette's system. All in all some very good players, but they are not adding up to be a very good team.

 

[BigFatCat999]

So we call the Deutschland daddy?

 

[Kat Predator]

Somehow they're going backwards. So sloppy with the passes, running into each other, don't even know what to call their attempts at defense. Feels just as bad as watching a Hynes team, or somehow worse. It's really hard to envision what Brunette wants this specific group to do on the ice. Other than pinch with no regard for human life and hope it works out.

Just adding that the spacing a lot of times is poor and disorganized. You'll often see two or more of our guys trying to be in the exact same spot on the ice, guys taking themselves completely out of plays inexplicably, guys giving little effort, etc.

Also we can't score in part, because for long stretches of games all that we can manage to do is run around in the defensive zone—chasing clean, crisp passes—and then maybe get possession just to clear the puck for a change only to do it all over again.

 

[herzausstein]

As long as we feel we tried him everywhere, it's all good.

Tried him for 3 games in the bottom 6. What more do you want. Doesnt matter that we are absolutely last in the league in goals for at even strength. Wouldnt want to try too much different in the top 6.



Honestly to stop bleeding goals against, we might need to jettison the top line, bottom line, top pairing, and lauzon pairing. Theyve all just been ass defensively