I'm very curious to see what HuGo does. They said things in the offseason about being "in the mix", but let's be honest, that doesn't seem like it's going to happen. I know it hasn't even been 10 games yet, but nothing we've seen so far suggests things are going to get better. If anything, they will probably get worse.
You'll get the people saying rebuilds are hard, which I agree with, but at some point I want to see improvement. I really thought this was the season we were going to start seeing it, and based on HuGo's comments it's clear they were too.
Things seem to be spiraling right now and I'm not sure what the solution is.
It's going to be a long season again, maybe we are just going to have to ride it out. Can't imagine the players are going to enjoy that again.
To be fair, to be in the mix they needed some health.
They are down Slaf/Guhle/Laine. A rebuilding team doesn't have the depth to overcome that many injuries, and really didn't have the depth to overcome Laine going down with Roy coming in with such a laissez-faire attitude.
Then you have Primeau taking a massive step back, Montembeault being either hot or cold, and the execution is all off.
Dach needing more ramp up time means without Laine, they are really deficient in talent to score.
We are getting the worst case scenario on everything we needed the best case scenario to be, and in the mix was always going to be playing meaningful hockey later in the year, not being an actual playoff threat.
I'll be interested to see what happens from here on out, but Marty has basically two years to figure his shit out and get them executing because people will handle the rebuild if we lose on getting out-talented, but we have to execute when we have the puck and we need to look cohesive for longer stretches in the defensive zone, right now all the Xs and Os look terrible save the PK, and he;s been too soft on correcting these issues.