Lack of top end skill is very evident. This team has no game breakers or anyone who can put the team on their back when down a goal. The style they are playing right now is to grind away and direct pucks to the net. Most often these are low percentage perimeter opportunities.
You can certainly have a low talented team go far (think 04) but unfortunately this team doesn’t have a Jarome Iginla type player to take over games and dominate shifts. And don’t even start me on the goaltending…
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