From a player perspective most of the blame goes to:
Huberdeau
Mangiapane
Markstrom
These 3 guys step up and this team will climb the standings.
From a coach/management perspective a lot of this is on Sutter's refusal to give a kid a chance and be more patient early in the season in hopes that it pays off later in the season.
A lot is on Treliving too because a lot of us were concerned how this team would be able to skate the puck out of trouble or gain the offensive blue line. A lot of us were worried that line combos with guys in our top 6 weren't going to work. Our top speed players are Dube, Backlund, Coleman. These 3 are not skilled players that drive your offence. This team desperately needs a speedy skilled winger to complement our other guys.
I feel this team on paper is still very good. We out play the other guy's more nights than we don't, but we just don't finish our chances like top teams do or like we did last year, and I think it's just a bad mix and could easily be fixed with 1 top 6 winger.
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