-Over a third into the season and our leading point getter hasn’t cracked 20 points. While other teams we trail have at least one high point scorer
-I know everyone says Matty is more defensive but cmon he showed some offensive talent in the world juniors as a highly touted prospect. Not his fault but he hasn’t been developed by management/coaches to reach his full potential. He should be our leading scorer at this point in his career
-Shane wright should be 2C instead of 3C.
-we have no offense…pretty sad we have 2 d men in our top 5 scoring leaders. I don’t think Lane Lambert is the coach we need.
-last pic shows goal differential which is quite accurate in terms of showing how good a team is doing instead of points. We have a decent number of wins yea but we are getting annihilated during losses and it’s showing. Historically the more negative a goal differential the lower in the standings you will finish. Flames deserve to be higher than we are. Kings are barely holding third place as they haven’t cracked double digit positive goal differential. Oilers are primed to jump into third soon.
-this is shaping up to be a lost season and very unlikely we make the playoffs now.
-he’s hurt but management wasn’t going to send Catton to the world juniors. I would say he should’ve so he could dominate and get some confidence.
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the team sucks at developing offensive talent and prioritizes middle six vets over giving young guys opportunities on the pp and more ice time. Then management has a surprised pikachu face when the young guys stagnate and the older guys get worse cause of aging out.
Wenny is outperforming our team. I mean there’s a good reason for that but seeing it is a little shocking anyway.
Idk what they gotta do but I wanna see some good hockey and I don’t want my mood to be so affected by ice skating athletes. That being said the children are the future give em some time to learn in real games that matter when Kartye came up for mccan he did real good with his opportunities made me a fan of him. We got guys that are hungry and talented but they Arnt all wearing an S on their chest and they could should
Ducks are an interesting case.
They basically tanked like the Sharks, but never hit on the generational talent. Turns out that isn’t really necessary for tanking to work, piling up a bunch of top 5 draft picks on your team can pan out just fine.
Bit of luck for the Ducks with how many of those guys wound up hitting though. Maybe you call Zegras a miss but otherwise all their draft picks panned out thus far. We’re seeing about the absolute best it can go with them.
Kraken are at the other end. We’ve only had 2 top 5 guys. As far as being viable top liners….. Beniers probably on the bubble and Wright feels like a miss. Not impossible they take a huge step forward, but most of the top tier guys do start producing pretty early.
Kinda shit luck for us being stuck with the Sharks and Ducks though. Both of those teams have loaded up hard with young talent and will be on the upswing soon I think.
Is it too soon for the Gavin McKenna talk? It’s going to be tough to beat Vancouver in the standings free fall but this offense is poised to give it a try.
The percentage of former Kraken who do anywhere from bad to slightly good and then go to other teams and perform MUCH, MUCH better and closer to their top potential should give everyone pause.
I do not understand why they keep picking NHL also-ran coaches over giving some AHL phenom the ride of his life. This is not a destination that great established coaches are going to flock to. They need to do something outside of the box. They simply will not.
This entire season is the culmination of conservative “try not to lose” management – 3 points out of last place in the NHL, the worst scoring in the league, huge ice time for guys who can’t put the puck in the net but can keep possession, creative and talented prospects that are forced to play systems designed for 3rd and 4th line grinders. This is the endpoint of that and what it looks like.
Is anybody satisfied?
It’s like having four 3rd lines
IMO don’t blame lambert. I think this team is in the basement without him. The lack of scoring from forwards isn’t on him but instead the roster construction. Where oh where is the star forward here
It’s the middle class trap. We’ve been in the middle class trap for the last few years.
We over indexed on analytics for depth value. Supporting / glue players need top end talent.
They’re going to see bumps in performance (which we usually see) but not enough to offset top end talent in the same role.
We aren’t good. We aren’t fun. And we aren’t young.
And somehow our FO purposely built it this way.
Give me bad and young, or bad and fun. At least.
Only team without a single player over 20 points
Personally I’m not too concerned. I feel like worse case scenario we rebuild and rebound. I’m (really) a Canadian Atlanta thrashers fan. They had similar issues but never had the chance to develop. I think Seattle is such a massive incredible market even through ups and downs the team itself will stay. I feel like ATL just didn’t have a chance. And they sold out often at home. I’m willing to follow Seattle through thick and thin. Even if the team itself isn’t the “Best” in the league.
I’ll take bad, young, and fun over this. I’d much rather be losing 6-8 every night with the young guys flashing their offensive chops, than lose 1-3 with a bunch of vets coasting and our young guys development being garbage.
I don’t think there’s a fix here until ownership steps in and cleans house in management, tbh. This is Ron Francis and Botterill team-building and it sucks. I also have many criticisms of Lane Lambert, but I think the fact that they hired him in the first place with his boring systems is the bigger issue.
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I bet they lead the NHL in passes completed, though.
SHOOT. THE. PUCK.
That is all.
I think this is Lambert’s last game after the Av’s take it to us tonight… no way he has a path forward without a team that can score…
Ownership and management are out of touch with what it takes to build a good team in this league. They probably think the move is to sign more washed middle 6ers to long term contracts.