I’m not pinning their boneheaded turnovers on the vets, sorry. This is the NHL. This is March. You shouldn’t require veterans to hold your hands. You shouldn’t be reversing a puck, needlessly, without knowing full well you can execute it.
And so has the team in general which you called total sh!t. Point is, no one cares if you had a half decent stretch if you can’t handle it when the games count.
Look at it this way - would you really wanted to have made the playoffs only to be absolutely slaughtered in 4 games like sacrificial lambs to the fvcking rangers?
We have one of the worst d-corps in the league. 3 rookie dmen + Brendan smith ain’t pretty. I don’t care if Luke Hughes is the next Bobby Orr he fvcking blows right now and belongs in the AHL.
Also, making the playoffs would put us at severe risk of Green coming back as coach. Lose out the rest of the way and get as high a pick as we can to trade away in the summer.
I’m in the same boat. Kid needs to sit in the press box a bit. Don’t care about his iron man streak. He doesn’t deserve to play after so many poor performances.
He technically could’ve for Markstrom, but didn’t want to pay the price. Additionally, any goalie would’ve been an upgrade over what we had. Kahkonnen or Gibson could’ve been had. But yeah even if you give him a pass for goalies, he still failed with the coaching change.
No doubt. I hate that he was thrown to the wolves and relied upon to run the first powerplay on a team expected to make playoffs. He’s been put in positions to fail and not learn from his mistakes. And that’s on coaching/fitz.
I have been very disappointed with him this season. I get he’s taking on more minutes and tough assignments that he really shouldn’t be getting at this stage of his career, but he’s making the same mistakes he made in October.
And the lethargy has to go from his game. It must be a result of him being able to out-skate everyone at every level, but in this league you will get punished for it.
I hope we lose every game the rest of the way. 1) it’ll eliminate any delusions Fitzgerald may have of keeping Green, and 2) improve our draft position for a meaningful trade. 3) fvck these losers
Makes you think about all those dropped points to the Ducks, Sharks, Blue Jackets, Mtl. Such a damn shame because those are easy points in the bag with appropriate coaching or half-adequate goaltending.