Just gonna toss my thoughts into the blender and they are not very original. Lately we have outplayed the Rangers, Islanders, Senators and Montreal for large parts of each game, and especially through the first period. The team has been playing good and are showing great signs of life. We just can't score. That would be a problem at any point in any season, but it wouldn't have been this big of a problem if we didn't let in a minimum of four damn goals every single game. Simplify the defensive game, limit the breakdowns and put a plywood cutout of Kipper in front of the net and we might stop more pucks. It is actually possible to survive runs of low scoring without being completely destroyed in the standings. It's been done before.
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