aquaweenie
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- Feb 23, 2024
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Yes this is 100% correct. Tocchet looks gunshy on the challenges. He doesn’t look confident at all with his PK.This reminds me of that Dallas-Vancouver series from 2007. The complete inability to gain any offense and straight up getting outplayed. Granted, this team *on paper* has way more offense than that 2007 squad where Pyatt, a 35 year old Bryan Smolinski and a 36 year old Linden were our leading scorers. It was obviously a transitionary period though because most of us saw young talent emerging from within in Burrows, Kesler, Hansen, Grabner and Raymond along with Edler and Bieksa on the backend.
Granted, this team has young talent right now playing on their squad. The hope is Raty, Lekkerimaki and Willander will turn out sooner than later and allow us to push bloated underperforming players like Mikheyev and Hronek off this team.
Right now, I do think the lack of scoring is due to a combination of a lack of talent in the top 6 along with improper coaching decisions that are stifling offense. Not loading up your top 2 lines in this series is right up there with 1-2-3-4 in terms of stupid coaching. Nashville isn't a team like 2012-2014 LA where they had 3 shutdown centers and 4 shutdown defensemen....
Also agree with loading up the lotto line. It’s crazy to me to watch EP take muffin after muffin shots because he’s banged up. He needs to pass, and we have just two guys that can score- and coach refuses to play them together. It’s dumb. It’s overthinking it.
Rewind last nights game to the 6 on 5 with the goalie pulled. EP on the point?? WTF? Who on the planet actually thinks the guy can score a goal from that far out with the way his shot is? I was dumbfounded. Not a single Pred went near him. Why would they? They know it’s a pass or a muffin.