Taphouse Canuck
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One thing's for sure: if we keep giving up 45 shots per game we will never be successful. Even Demko can only carry us so far.. I'm hoping for a better defensive effort all round. Right now it's too stressful watching us play. If I die of a heart attack watching the third period I'm going to be pissed off.
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Last night's performance was hard to watch. We are back to the dark days of February, when people were saying "It's the schedule", "they've had no practice", "they didn't have any preseason games". So what's the excuse now? We got absolutely hammered and outplayed by a mediocre Habs team, who did nothing special except forecheck hard and give us no time on the puck. We couldn't get out of our D zone because we were making cute little plays around the net and getting caught with the puck. When we did break out the only plan seemed to be to dump the puck in and chase it: the only snag was that by the time our forwards got there the Montreal D had made 2 simple passes and the puck was heading the other way. If there was any system it wasn't obvious, it looked like 18 guys skating randomly with no plan at all. I can handle losing, let's be honest we've had plenty of that over the years, but I can't handle the manner of losing. We lose 5-1 and yet our goalie is our best player. How did everyone else become so bad in such a short space of time? The players we bring in seem to get dragged down to our level. Nate Schmidt was an elite player on an elite team, but now he's with us he looks like he just came up from the AHL. We desperately need a good defensive coach and head coach. Maybe it's tank time now and hope for the best in the draft, that at least is something we seem good at.
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Not quite sure why the rush to dump Pearson. He's not even 29 yet and it seems to be forgotten that he had 45 points last season, that seems to me to be good value for money. This year hasn't been great but we have to remember that the team as a whole sucked for the entire month of February. He plays big minutes and is a real Swiss army knife type of guy. If the price is right we should keep him.
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Hahaha that was a brilliant power play, who drew that one up? Play the puck around between yourselves and let the opposition have it as often as they want, even let them have some shots. Then, just as they think we have the most incompetent power play in the league, wham Jake takes a random shot from an unlikely angle and we are 1/1 on the power play.
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Isn't this one of the most worrying things about our team? They are being shown by a rookie how they need to play. Maybe the decent playoff run last year deluded them into thinking they are better than they really are. Did they think they were going to walk the North division? It's a short season, if they don't bring their A game every night then we have a wasted year.