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Mo Seider Less Problems
- Jul 27, 2010
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Couple things…Let’s look at it from the top down, our top 6 is incredibly small, kane, debrincat, Raymond, these are all guys 5’11 and less. At least however guys like Raymond and debrincat will try to be physical. Then we have tank, compher and Larkin who is by far our best center. What’s the theme? All of these guys are either small, or unbelievably slow. With Larkin being the only exception. Combine this with our bottom 6, who are also extremely slow, but at least they have more size, yet they don’t use it! They play small despite having the size, like the mirror opposite of guys in our top 6. It’s just a horrible mismatch of players, and none of them really compliment each other what so ever. Ras and Copp provide 0 offense, Berggren is playing with “shut down” players. Motte and Fischer do the same thing and are redundant, veleno is replacement level but at least he can skate. I mean was any thought put into this?
Our defenseman are pretty self explanatory, outside of Ed and seider they are old and slow too, or just make crazy head scratching decisions like chiarot.
This is a team that is old and slow while seriously lacking in skill, and the guys that do have skill are all small and amongst each other on the same lines so they get killed on the forecheck and out muscled constantly. It just doesn’t make sense and is not a recipe for success as bad as lalonde is (Which I think he is, he’s never been able to get the team motivated). I just don’t see anyway this team is competing for the playoffs by the end of the year, even if it’s only game 4, I don’t see how even a coaching change can address the core issue the team has.
1) Everyone wants to be mad at having guys like Copp and Compher on the roster. Every team in the league would sign players like that if they had the holes at 2/3C we did and the amount of cap we did. Do you guys realize what would have been needed to make you happy? It would have required multiple off seasons of sitting on a plethora of cap and doing nothing and throwing rookies into the lineup as soon as possible. We would have issues if we went this route, it would just be a different set of issues.
2.) The size of the top 6 is an issue - I mean is it? Tampa Bay is rolling out Guentzel-Point-Kuch as their top line and they don’t seem too worried about it.
3.) Feel free to tell us where we are supposed to be getting these guys that are more big/fast/skilled from.
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