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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Well I didn’t necessarily say that, but I don’t disagree with you either. The way this team plays is differently from Hartley, we rely more on our forwards to produce offense instead of out defensemen. Hamonic was very expensive for a slight upgrade over Engelland if even, I’m still not convinced. But there’s no doubt in my mind several forwards on this team need to be upgraded in order fot us to reach the sky high expectations.
Treliving himself said in the summer that he was likely going to lose the most sleep because of the potential that we weren’t going to score enough goals. Well that problem has become reality despite the career years from our top forwards.
Personally I think there’s a lot of blame going around that’s completely unwarranted. From the coaching staff, to the top players, our special teams to an extent and even to the team’s mental fortitude. But I don’t see much blame directed to the real problem, our lack of forward depth.
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I agree with this and I think BT knew this was a concern going into the season. But philosophically he believed in building from the goalie out, and that a superior corps of defensemen could overcome lack of forward depth. So maybe part of the problem is a flaw in this philosophy, or that the D are overrated. I think it might be some of both.