There is something seriously wrong with this team. I can't believe management put these bums on the ice in hopes of making the playoffs. Brouwer sucks. Chiasson is AHL quality. Gaudreau looks frustrated and scared. Monahan scores garbage time goals and tap ins but can't contribute something other than a goal. Wideman is the worst top 4 d man in the nhl. Brodie looks like a different player. Giordano isn't worth half of his contract. We have 2 back up goalies. The only bright spot on this team is the MMM line.
I'm starting to think this team was doomed from the get go. They don't have the skill level. We can hardly string passes together. We can't leave our own zone without a dump or deflecting the puck in. Bennett looks really really bad and I'm his biggest fan.
Maybe it's bigger than just the players. Maybe it's aBovey the coach. Call me a conspiracy theorist but I blame Ken King and BT. King for pressuring the team to be something they aren't. Treliving for how he's gone about it. He's a wizard at trading. Terrible at handing out contracts and free agent signings. Even the coaching hire is questionable.
This team should never ever have gone out and signed everyone to a 7 year contract. Gaudreau..
Maybe. But everyone else should have been bridged or traded. Never should have signed Gio for 6 years. Should have traded Wideman 2 years ago.
We aren't a playoff team but we have been building a scrap yard team to make the playoffs. Wish we would have stayed patient, kept all our cap flexibility and just let our kids play and acquire young assets.
Brouwer and Gio alone are 10m. Kill me.
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