100% Keefe gets this team rolling
Like the GM..... you all place so much hope in an unknown commodity.
Looks like Lou has assembled a fairly competitive team that won a playoff series.
Guess the old man wasnt washed up after all.
Dubas is getting quite the free pass here.
He assembled this defence and forwards group, and the goaltending.
Babcock has lost his mojo here and should be replaced.
But this isnt babcocks fault that this team doesnt seem to want to start on time, has goaltending issues, and it's as soft as Preston's head.
This team is amazingly talented, but they have no heart.
They are like grey hounds and boxers.
Amazing to watch and beautiful, but dumber than dirt.
Babcocks method has been tested and is proven from past statistics, but this team has shut him out.
I really dont think keefe will be the answer, but it is a start.
This team is fundamentally flawed.
I really wish they had brought keefe up as a asst coach to start the season.
This is becoming a mess but i hope they dont start a full reboot.
Maybe Dressing the backup for the next 2 games and give Andy a couple of nights off to get his head straightened around will help.
Then I would ride him until the end of january and then give him another week off.
Babcock will have big success with another team .... if this I am sure. But it isnt working here and I would put the blame at 50/50.
These kids need a psychologist as well as a motivator .... they are broken..
I only see a bunch of I's and no team here.
That is the beauty of the Marchants and beregerons ..... they play for the Crest not the ego underneath.
It just seems to me that these kids dont respect dubas and the cock.
Funny when lou was here, everyone towed the line and no one challenged him.
Now ......
Btw, zeke ...... if anderson is suffering here and the backup position is a mess..... what other goalies in Anderson's price range could be had in a trade?
If I am correct, Anderson only has one more season left on the existing contract and he will want alot more money.
I know that this isnt a huge anderson blame, but he isn't as productive as he has been.
And anderson has let this team down time and time again.
Why are we always so surprised whenever he let's in a bad goal or two?
So the positive .... Matthew's is progressing well .... nylander is finding his groove under Matthew's superman Cape.
Hyman is back so it makes the leafs a little harder to play against.
Muzzin is a horse out there and is going to be missed sorely out there next season.
Kerfoot and mick are more than expected.
Cons .....
Gauthier is a train wreck. But he shouldnt be getting half the minutes he is getting.
Moore has taken a step back. I wonder if it is from the country club atmosphere.
Nylander, kappy, petan, barrie, mo, dermot, matthews(?), Moore, Johnnson has many many times, spezza, kerfoot play way to soft.
When matthews and tavares and anderson take the cheap shots they have and no one comes to there defence ..... serious problems here.
This team is in trouble .... if they can work this out together and get through this, they will be a beast come playoff time.
But if they cant figure this out before Christmas...... their season is done and so is babcock and dubas will hopefully be put on a short leash for the remainder of the season.
Tampa had this type of season a couple of years ago and then came out flying the next few.