Not sure why people get on Miller so much. He's a very young rookie, he made one bad mistake tonight but many more good plays and scoring chances. If he can really find a way to start putting the puck in the net he'll be a really good player.
At any rate, I think it's pretty clear that it's too late for the team to "get it together" or "find consistency". The team is what it is, and what it is isn't good enough.
I like a lot of what Tortorella does, what he demands of his players, how he handles them and works with young guys, etc, but his system isn't working with this team. Either the player mix isn't right or other teams have figured it out or whatever, it just isn't working and it isn't going to start working. The no pressure, collapse and block shots thing is a huge reason why their offensive is anemic, since every breakout they have allows the other team time to get back into the neutral zone and force a turnover at the blue line, or for the Rangers to dump the puck in. And guys just don't seem to be in positions to make plays at all, and I don't know what to blame that on except coaching at this point. No one ever gives their linemates very good puck support in any zone, and too many designed plays are for guys standing still along the boards or in the neutral zone
A huge part of this problem is also Gaborik playing exceedingly poorly. He is invisible at best pretty much every night, can't shoot the puck anymore, doesn't actually even attempt to shoot the puck most of the time.
Eh.
Time to do something and that something really shouldn't be focused on attempting to salvage this season. Trade some guys, find a new coach, whatever it is, this current arrangement has proven to be a poor one