I just do not understand the train of thought here. Irving doesn't get any starts therefore has no chance to prove if he can handle the job and people tell us he isn't the answer. Then, Kipper lays some real bad games at our feet and some of us get concerned. We voice our concern based on statistical fact and get dumped on.
5 games in a 48 game season is a fair sample size to worry over. Especially given the fact that Hartley is breaking the season down into seven game chunks. We missed our target of nine points already in this chunk and yet Kipper gets a pass? So in the next bracket just to make up the lost points they would have to win out the bracket. The hill is getting slippery and steeper and we're 6 games in....not good. Kipper HAS to be better against CHI. if he isn't , it is fair to say its time to start gambling and get Irving or whoever some some starts, win or lose.
I don't like it anymore than anyone else here but this is a real concern. I hope Kipper bounces back and can level his game out. But he is fighting the puck more than I have ever seen him. Even tracking the puck he is far below his normal standards. And don't tell me thats partly the D's fault. Pretty much the same D core from last year, he knows their tendancies.
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