I don't get all the "they played terribly" comments, it looked like a very solid effort to me. And in most situations, I would say solid effort but a bit unlucky with 4 posts - just move on and keep playing like that.
But two things make it hard to do that: first, the PP cost them a win for the fourth game in a row; and second, despite the fact that they outchanced the Preds, the two goals were the result of guys being wide open in front of Smith. Our passive zone coverage on D is driving me insane.
Under Hartley, I hated the collapsing D zone coverage, but I loved the way the D jumped into the play.
With Gulutzan, our D is still way too passive (playing zone and ignoring the man), but now they aren't jumping into the offense as much. Hartley wasn't the answer. But this is worse.
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