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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

Getting pretty tired of this whole "unlucky" garbage. Wills is pretty aggravating on the radio making excuses every day when he's on.....someone in the media needs to call them out for what they are.

This team is a perimeter team. Cycle cycle cycle, throw a muffin on net, stand around and watch, rinse and repeat. Stay in position, make sure you can transition back to defence, and try to score from low danger areas (the areas teams let you shoot from, because the goalie is going to stop 99.9999% of the wrist shots from the top of the circle).

From my standpoint the reason Foo and Bennett looked good last night was because they were driving the net. How many times was Foo on the doorstep ramming the goalie creating chaos? How many times has the rest of the team done that? They don't. Outside of Gio (a defenceman!!) there are 3 or 4 guys that drive the net and create secondary chances. Shore did it , and look what happened. He drove the net after a shot, and sure enough there was the rebound and an empty net.

It sure seems to me that Gulutzans system involves a lot of perimeter play making. This makes a goalies life pretty easy when he's not getting screened, and his dmen are clearing rebounds almost completely unopposed. The high shot count is totally misleading here, and so are the stats. Sure, the players are trying......it just isn't going to matter when the system is set up the way it is. Gaudreau and Monahan can play in this system because they are skilled enough to do it (Gaudreau is a perimeter playmaker, Monahan an elite finisher anywhere around the slot). The rest of the team isn't, and that's a major problem with the coaching and not adjusting to players strengths.

The sooner we get a coach to create an identity and let guys like Tkachuk and Bennett run goalies outside the crease and crash the net the better. Same with Foo, the guy looks like a player; but someone in the game thread said it best when they said that the offense "hasn't been coached out of him yet" and IMO that's 100% true.

I apologize if this has been said 10000x already, but this has got to be one of the most frustrating seasons I've seen in a LONG time.

Exactly this.

They might win the Corsi-Cup or whatever and pad the shot-clock but none of their shots are dangerous.

Goalies in today's game are too good, if they get all the time in the world to get square to the shot it likely isnt going to go in.

Unless you're playing against Brian Elliott.