I've always found that the peaks and valleys are more extreme in the early stages of seasons here because the sample size is so small but everybody wants to read into it wholely.
In reality every decent team takes a month to get up to speed more or less (and that's WITH a pre-season).
We had no exhibitions, started cold, then got dished a long break while every one else was playing and working their kinks out. Now we're working ours out against a team that much more in a rhythm.
Talk to me in a week of games every second night and then we can start to discuss where the team is at.
Drawing conclusions right now when the rust is obvious is totally asinine.
13 periods of hockey so far, and 4 of them in the past 9 days. You figure it's a 8 game losing streak.
