Probably stating the obvious but you just have so many under producing forwards. I would say Backlund and Toffoli are the only ones that are meeting expectations. Toffoli gets a lot of flack but the guy scores reasonably enough when given chances. You add Ritchie and Lewis in terms of meeting expectations, and it's not their fault they are being over played.
Ruzicka has been a nice surprise of late.
So that leaves you with Hubderdeau, Kadri, Coleman, Mangiapane, Dube, Lindholm all guys you expected to give you some reasonable production and they are not. They range from being below average to terrible.
I think the blueline has performed reasonably OK.
But the forwards need to product.
Either they have the wrong combo of players, haven't found chemistry or the system doesn't match the skills.
I have no idea which it is.
Sure glad they have their first.
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