Player Discussion What is the solution to this teams consistency problem?

[Micklebot]

1/3rd of the roster weren't regulars for this team last year, and we hired a new coach in the offseason, I'm not sure why anyone would expect immediate consistency.

It takes time to learn new systems and it takes time for coaches to break old habits.

We've played 500 hockey without some important players, Zub and Pinto in particular, and with Ullmark yet to find his footing after coming back from injury.

I know it's tough being patient, but now is the time to build on the positives and work through the areas needing improvement.

Zub and Pinto are skating and both possible to return tonight, that should be a big boost going forward.

 

[PlayOn]

IMO this is a fair question to ask for any bubble team, because by default they are all inconsistent. That’s what makes them a bubble team.

It could be youth. It could be the core itself. It could be that they haven’t fully found their footing with the new mix and coach. No one really knows if this is a continuation of a pattern or if it’s just growing pains.

So until we are no longer a bubble team, that’s the question revolving around the core. I like how they’ve played personally and I like the team, but it’d be silly to assume at this point the only option is that they are 100% going to put it all together.

Mind you I don’t think there is anything to be done right now. Let them navigate and see what happens, but it’s still worth discussing.

 

[Blotto71]

More fiber! Duh.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

1/3rd of the roster weren't regulars for this team last year, and we hired a new coach in the offseason, I'm not sure why anyone would expect immediate consistency.

It takes time to learn new systems and it takes time for coaches to break old habits.

We've played 500 hockey without some important players, Zub and Pinto in particular, and with Ullmark yet to find his footing after coming back from injury.

I know it's tough being patient, but now is the time to build on the positives and work through the areas needing improvement.

Zub and Pinto are skating and both possible to return tonight, that should be a big boost going forward.

Weren’t we 500 when pinto went out?

 

[Micklebot]

Weren’t we 500 when pinto went out?

I phrased that a bit odd, Pinto's last game was Utah, after which we were 4-2-0, if you break it down to with without him we are under 500 while Pinto is out of the lineup, and over with him in, what I mean was more that despite Zub and Pinto missing extensive time so far, we're still at 500, so getting them back should help us get back on track.

Before Pinto was out Greig and Ullmark were out, we've only played 2 games with a healthy roster.

 

[Tuna99]

1/3rd of the roster weren't regulars for this team last year, and we hired a new coach in the offseason, I'm not sure why anyone would expect immediate consistency.

It takes time to learn new systems and it takes time for coaches to break old habits.

We've played 500 hockey without some important players, Zub and Pinto in particular, and with Ullmark yet to find his footing after coming back from injury.

I know it's tough being patient, but now is the time to build on the positives and work through the areas needing improvement.

Zub and Pinto are skating and both possible to return tonight, that should be a big boost going forward.

I think we expect consistency because that’s what they’ve been preaching since Jacques Martin was hired and Brady said 2 weeks ago after the Montreal game “you won’t see us play another game like that all year” and we’ve seen them now no show multiple times into a 12 game season.

We expect consistency because that’s what they say they are going to deliver - and they don’t, so we ask why, and the answer is “because they are inconsistent”

Rinse, wash, repeat

 

[Dan Patrick]

Picked other: Get core pieces back from injury, overhaul scouting staff, give it a year, overhaul the roster (soft rebuild). Do it in that order. Anyone ready to give up on the core or coach a month into the season had their mind made up about this team before any hockey was played.

I get that a few very vocal posters hate Brady, hate the roster construction, and hate the coach. While that’s fine, it’s exhausting having them act like they are Nostradamus after every loss.

 

[JD1]

play well tonight against the Islanders and it will be all roses tomorrow

i was disappointed in the Buffalo game. Definitely one we need to figure out how to win. But we are in the race and we're generally playing well.