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Originally Posted by Hockey-and_stuff
I don't think Gillies has been good enough but woof, that roster is really bad.
I think we'd see a different story if that team had Kylington, Andersson and Valimaki. It's hard to look good with the 6D they have to work with night in and night out.
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I don't buy it being a personnel issue. Without the Big 3, they still have Ollas-Mattson, Valiyev, Nielsen, Taormina, and Healy. Two of those guys are tweeners that are getting paid big bucks to be excellent (Taormina, Valiyev) and two of those guys are good AHL players (Nielsen, Healy). Yet they are leaking goals left, right, and centre.
Same thing on offense where they have a few tweeners that should be dominating (Rychel, Graovac, Lazar, Foo), yet they're still in the bottom half of the league in scoring.
It has to be a coaching issue.