We may not have any elite players but we do have really good players. The problem is coaching or GM need to be aligned on the system and players.
This roster "should" be a playoff roster however it seems most coaches (Ward and others) have failed to identify individual skillset. You cannot blanket a team with one vision, one strategy, one system. If Ward wants a pucks deep, hard working, ground and pound hockey, Treliving needs to supply him with a bunch of Lucic's and bigger guys. Instead Ward expects Marshmallow Mony, lil skittles Johnny, and others to dump pucks deep and retrieve. Two reasons this doesn't work, guys aren't gritty enough, guys aren't fast enough.
The reason Hartley had success with most of this core is because his system was based off transition, which works for "most" type players.
Even when we have the puck in our zone and one of the D is waiting to throw an outlet, we don't even have enough players to wind up and skate past the other team or even back them up out of respect to getting burned.
Add to some of what other posters said, a divide in the room, etc etc. It's compounded to negativity and nobody is having fun.
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