Mixed bag with him. Great stretches and terrible stretches. His seeming lack of ability to shake the team out of the bad stretches is concerning. My main gripe with him is that the worst parts of the
Mixed bag with him. Great stretches and terrible stretches. His seeming lack of ability to shake the team out of the bad stretches is concerning. My main gripe with him is that the worst parts of the team's overall performance this season don't reflect particularly well on him. The most damaging one being a consistent lack of preparation for games. A handful of guys are slow-starters, that's one thing. The entire team consistently coming out anemic to start games and you have to start looking a bit more critically at the coach.
That said, the roster still has some major holes so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But if there's a better roster next season and the team still struggles with the same issues that's a problem.
team's overall performance this season don't reflect particularly well on him. The most damaging one being a consistent lack of preparation for games. A handful of guys are slow-starters, that's one thing. The entire team consistently coming out anemic to start games and you have to start looking a bit more critically at the coach.
That said, the roster still has some major holes so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But if there's a better roster next seasontnd the team still struggles with the same issues that's a problem.
The slow starts but also a terrible start of the 3rd vs Caps last game where they score in the 1st min.
The team played great games vs Vegas and Nashville and lost both, but in the same stretch they lost to Arizona twice and they lost to the Caps despite having the 2-1 lead starting the 3rd.
There is no structured forechecking nor defence. The players seem out of position all the time. They pretend like they try to help each others and then they are out of position and cheat so the result is easy goals. It is obvious that the opposition scores easy goals, they don't have to work hard and earn goals.
Perron taking bad penalties, DeBrincat a turnover machine, Fabbri completely invisible in 26 games (3rd of the season) and he has no balls to bench them. Playing Lyon who is 0-9 over Reimer who is 7-2 (6-1), playing Larkin with Perron and Raymond instead of DeBrincat and Kane. Larkin with DeBrincat and Kane 13 goals and +7, with Perron and Raymond 7 goals -6.
Raymond was red hot. Now?
Larkin should play with DeBrincat and Kane to cover for DeBrincat, but also to balance out offense.
Raymond could do more damage cause the opponents would focus on Larkin line.