Forward need to protect the net with the D tonight. Having Miller on wing will help a bunch.
Can't play OEL - Myers all night so gotta give some time to Burroughs and Rathbone. I think they can do it.
Kinda the same fantasy when I said this new management group would do nothing and I got harassed by many on the board that this management group was A+
All of you saying that they need to blow it up etc... The team is good. Every game has felt like it was winnable. It is a mental trap that they are in right now. Once they get over this 600 win for Bruce, they will start winning.
Not the D. The moment JT and BB were on the ice together we all knew we had lost. JT Miller has been on the ice for almost every goal against. That is not a D problem. That is a forward not helping the D problem.
I did that once in a beer league game. I was a late sub goalie and was still getting dressed when the game was scheduled to start. We were up 1-0 by the time I got into my crease.
I know a lot of people say it is the D that is awful but the fact that JT Miller was on the ice for all 8 goals against says a whole lot about certain forwards helping. People forget that if the forwards do not help the D will easily get swarmed and look terrible
I did not see the game as none of my streams work. However, I have been saying from last year, take Hughes off PP1 and replace him with OEL. When QH was injured, OEL proved he was much better at leading the PP and he doesn't try to get so cute.
You all want the AHL team to learn and get better but get upset when they do anything. It was a good game for the AHL guys to see how much faster the game is and understand what they need to work on this year. They will be bragging to their grandkids that they played against McDavid. Those last couple goals are a wash and a whatever.