Let's see if Marc Savard keeps pushing his personal agenda of full out offence, minimal defence and the 1a/1b garbage, also add his lack of sticking with any set line combination, literally 1 bad period or game and its completely new lines. it shows more about our coach then the players in my opinion, like keep losing the same ways and stick with the same gameplan? Continue to beat bottom feeder teams, who cares! I sure dont, cant win the games that matter most, which is all that will matters in the playoffs. I would think it should be time to adapt and figure things out, should have been done a long time ago. Delmore might be in charge of the Defence but at the end of the day Savard makes the final decision as the head coach, the shit travels down hill to the head coach. It's on Him, hes not playing the game no thats the players and goalie but he is the guy calling the shots and making there strategy and style of game. Good teams have clearly progressed during the season and are coming in with a gameplan and taking away our strengths now and were just not changing too much at all. We need to Start playing the game the right way, all out offence will not win any championship in any hockey league, look at the NHL, tell me how the OIlers and Leafs have fared the last few years, top heavy and full out offence with horrible team Defense and goaltending. It's just a recipe for disaster. Going to meet a better team in the playoffs that's well structured and better coached and that will be our season.
I really hope to see a different version of this team in not only this afternoon's game but for the rest of this season and heading into the postseason. We need to see something different, I love seeing goals but when you get shut down by the best teams, I think it's fair to say were not going to come out and run and gun vs these top teams. These are well coached teams, some of these other coaches have been around for decades now (ex: Hunters, Cameron) in this league and they prepare for battle, they also adapt and change gameplan if needed when you play different style teams. Anyways dont really care about the game to much today, this team has wider scale issues, I'm more excited to watch the two big showdowns next week vs the Knights and Sting, if we cant start winning those types of games then were going to be in tough come 2nd/3rd rounds of playoffs if were blessed enough to get that far.
Anyways hope we can salvage at least two points for this awful long road trip (just like the last).
Go Spitfires Go!!
