Better Call Sal
Salnalysis
During this 11 game slide noted bums: Cotter (3), Palat (3), Tatar (1), Mercer (1) combined for 8 five on five goals.
The rest of the forwards: 6.
The top guys just aren't good enough right now during most of the game. These games are so close that if you get a few more goals from these guys and you are looking at 4+ extra points and sitting pretty.
It's absolutely a collective situation right now. And it also coincides with our PP cooling off from the dominance they showed in the first couple of months.
I do think that the top guys are trying to overcomplicate their game offensively. You can see there is just no simplification of their game. Waiting for the perfect shooting lane, over passing, passes coming too hot and bouncing off sticks. It's why I'm fully in favor of mixing those lines up at this point.
I appreciate Keefe letting them try to work it out. I'd prefer that to bingo balling the lineup. But I think you have to try and give some other looks.