[Gaskal]

After watching it live tonight, all of my friends came away with the impression that we desperately, desperately need some sort of structured breakout and zone entry system.

We're able to hold the line a lot, which I liked. But the majority of our zone entries, just off eyeballing, was on dump ins. Even on the PP. And there were just a ridiculous amount of neutral zone turnovers.

I'm noticing that the forwards often recieve a breakout pass when they're on our side of the neutral zone. Wasn't the plan supposed to be that you hit a forward picking up speed before he makes it out of the d-zone? The whole idea behind forward puck support moving it out of the zone?

I don't know if it was part of the plan or whether it was Hartley's old remnants creeping back in, but I noticed a lot of that tonight. And I really despised how little speed we had breaking over center ice. Only Johnny ever seemed to have the speed to make the defence back off.

Everyone else either got stymied at around the faceoff circles along the boards and had to either 1.) Chip it deep (and we often got beat on the puck battles) or 2.) Feed it back to the blueline (but eventually Carolina put another backchecker along the wall and that got stuffed more often than not too) which made several players resort to 3.) Blindly whip a cross-ice pass that usually got poked away.

No in-game adjustments. I mean I had a few beers in me, but I did not see a single bit of adjustment between periods, which really left my faith in Gulutzan shaken. Great, he can key in on a between-game basis - but he's getting outcoached during the actual games themselves.

Also, fire Cameron.

FIRE HIM NOW!!!!!!!