You can get away with a bad PP if you have a really good PK and you can score 5 on 5 but this team wasn't all that good scoring at any time. It was a counterpunch team that often had to fight from behind and when you are like that one missed save by a goalie sinks you and that happened when the goaltending bubble burst.
Maybe Torts has lost the room. People will say that. If its true I guess they have to move on but it would not be good. Berube? Gallant? Some new guy? I wouldn't, but you can't change ALL the players so they have to figure out if it's true or not.
Personally, I like this team more than the one that had JVR and Hayes etc. that Fletcher left us but they do need more scoring talent added to it. I joke with my friend in Buffalo that if we could take our two teams and toss the sticks in a pile and do that old pick up thing we might be able to mix it into two functional rosters as we are polar opposites in what we have and do but both lose. Some of their high end talent, some of our work hard grit, two more balanced rosters.
Well we shall see what happens. Maybe we have to wait for Michkov to save us.