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Originally Posted by belsarius
The big question Treliving has to ask is why did they underachieve?
The goals for is almost identical to last year and the coach has been able to get career high type levels of production out of his top 5 or 6 players. GA 5v5 is slightly higher as is the shots against. Smith has had a 10 point increase in sv% over the tandem last year, but nearly identical GAA.
Goals against when down a man have taken a huge hit and are way up over last year. Partly due to a worse PK, and partly due to an increase in the number of times shorthanded.
GGs main fault has been his inability to get a consistent effort from this team. Get the first goal in 4 straight and end up losing them all. Give up the first goal in 3 straight and end up winning them all. Games of dominance, and periods of flatulence. His system has allowed the top tier players to succeed but the bottom tier to flounder, where I would have expected the opposite.
Placing the whole season of underachieving on the coaches head is a luxury of the fanbase, where I hope management looks a little deeper to see why the team can go 40-23-3 to end one season and stumble the next under the exact same regime.
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I don’t disagree with what you’re saying for the most part. But I think that’s the NHL for you. The other teams get paid to play too and they want to win as much as any other team.
It’s not like the Kings, Ducks, Sharks, Stars, Blues and etc aren’t without their own faults and inconsistencies or else they wouldn’t be where we are in the standings. I’ll bet every fan base in and around us thinks the exact same thing about their own team. Probably using the same buzzwords like inconsistent, mentally weak and etc.
To me, the competitive balance of the league is insanely close and any team on any given night can win. I don’t see us as an elite team which is why we’re not sitting where the Jets are, or where the Preds are or where the other top teams are.