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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
I cannot believe Treliving still hasn’t addressed the 4th line of this team. We have a lot of our top players having career years and one who’s top 10 in scoring yet we’re still struggling mightily to score enough goals to win.
There’s something very wrong with that picture. We’re 50 games in and Lazar is still sitting at a goose egg and Matt Stajan has 2 points. If Stajan scored at the same pace as he did last season we’d probably have 2-3 additional wins and we all wouldn’t be as pissed off as we are right now.
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Scoring dept is a problem for sure. But as someone pointed out, there can be more than one problem.
Also, I am not suggesting that Stajan or Lazar would score 20 goals in a different environment or anything like that, but I do think it is a valid question to ask how much of the lack of scoring from the bottom 6 is a function of the style of play?
They don't go to the net. They don't forecheck aggressively. They don't pinch much. They play a very careful style and try not to lose.
And it hurts their offence.
Here are the points from defensemen over the last 4 years:
2014/15: 195
2015/16: 203
2016/17: 176
2017/18: 133 (pace)
So either our defencemen, as a group, are getting a lot less talented offensively, or there is something different about the way they are playing and how they are being utilized.
I think almost everyone on here would agree that the current group is the most talented of the 4 years (certainly not the least), so there has to be something else at play.