And it’s obvious teams are overloading Jack and yet our guys still try to get him the puck like he’s the only pro and they’re beer league players happy to be there. Shoot, move around and for gods sake go to where the puck will be
Their positioning is always wrong. In the D zone it’s why we constantly get hemmed in. We roll it around the boards but the opposition’s D is sitting there like it’s his apartment. We turn it over within 3’ of the blue line all the f***ing time.
On O, we get a shot or a dump in and more often than not that’s it - back out it goes - because our guys are NOT where the puck is going or likely to go.
Either the entire team is talented but low hockey IQ or the system has them in positions that don’t align to physics.
Fitzgerald being so quiet other than his sham promotion / extension presser is a disgrace.
Other things are not really worth revisiting:
- Tatar could have come back and he got greedy and f***ed around and found out.
- wood was heart and soul but penalties AND too expensive - but Nosek being slow and useless makes this hurt more
- McL is a bigger loss than people realize
- goalies weren’t out there
- Shara and Boq weren’t going to play here
I think there are only 3 games left before tournaments for Casey. Let’s get him in too while we have burned a season.