I’m sure we’ll hear about a player’s only meeting blah blah blah. Who cares. Been playing like losers for a while now. Blowing leads, getting owned on special teams, mounting no comeback efforts at all. I think i’m going to take a little midseason break from watching. Just pure frustration lately
They’re 3-3-3 in their last 9 games with the 4th best xGF% in that time frame but 22nd best SH% and 30th best SV%. This is the kind of “slump” that I as a fan would rather see than them actually playing like shit and getting shitty results to match.
Look at Toronto, Colorado, or even Pittsburgh who started slow, then their PDO’s regressed to the norm and now they can’t lose. Nothing was ever “wrong” with them. They were consistently controlling play and they began to get the results to match those analytics.
I do think there are areas of concern (PP and goaltending), but slumps like this happen to good teams at points during the year. And as a fan, I don’t think there is reason to worry unless they actually start getting out played.