Contempt

Children lost to men. Again.

Ryan Miller, Dominik Hasek, Steve Shields, Grant Fuhr, Daren Puppa?

So long as it's not rainbow colored tape. That makes them sad.

Then trade half the team too. To hell with it, Kitty bar the door.

Lots of pushing, shoving, and coarse language.

Bills. Sabres not even on flip.

Ok. Worst to best. Power Clifton Olofsson Johnson

Power is the worst of the group. Dahlin is way worser though.

I remember it being extremely hot. I also remember being considerably younger.

Saw them at LaSalle Park in 1994. Decent show.

Losing teams don't get calls. This is true in every sport at every level.

It's not anger anymore. It's dismissive disgust. Contempt if you will. That game isn't even on my radar for Saturday night.

Because absolutely nothing happens when they don't play hard. Nobody sits, nobody gets PP time taken away, nothing changes. The children play when they feel like it. They played hard once. Great.

If he can't accept getting booed and people calling for his coach's job when he's getting pumped 9-3 at home by the worst team in the league then he might not have the fortitude for this line of work. There isn't a fanbase on this planet, let alone in this league, that would have tolerated that shambolic display. Go pull that in Montreal and see what happens.

Exactly. They can trade any or all of them and I don't think I'd bat an eyelash.

Can we submit a list of the things that have really irritated us? An airing of grievances, in the true spirit of Festivus.

Properly coaching THIS team probably is letting them run and gun because they don't have the stones or the horses to play another way. It's what they are built to do. All skill, no grit, little commitment to defense. The hell with it, at least go try to score 6 every night and see who can hang with that. Changing the makeup of the roster can't legitimately be done right now nor do i think it's something they want to do anyway. The issue I have with this approach is they never addressed the goaltending to be able to pretend to be successful this way. Again, I don't think they see the need for this either. That is what is truly disturbing about KA. You want to build this kind of team, fine, go for it, but at least understand what you've built and get them what they need. They can't/won't/aren't going to play shut down D in front of any goaltender. Go get a goaltender that can cope with that and still win. No there aren't many. Yes they are expensive. That is the price you pay for building a team this way. You can't ask this roster to grind out games and play close checking hockey. It's not going to happen.

Columbus looking at that like...

Watched them live v. Carolina and they looked absolutely terrible. Men v. children. That sounds correct.

Last year is last year. I want to know who is underperforming at home now and why but since you asked. Thompson was roughly the same home and away last year scoring. He was -8 at home and +4 on the road. Tuch had a huge disparity last year also. 14 goals, 18 assists, -10 at home v. 22 goals, 25 assists, +24 away Mittelstadt was basically the same home and away Power was basically the same scoring but was -12 at home and +22 on the road Benson was in Junior. Now, Tuch was still nearly 1 ppg at home last year so it didn't stand out so much but that's a really huge difference, and he's doing it again. Also, his home/road metrics didn't start to flip until 2022-23. Before that he was a relatively normal player with pretty even splits or at least splits that made sense.

To be fair, if you didn't turn that game on in the first minute, you probably turned it off pretty quickly when you did.

Getting to the bottom of this is a key to a long term solution. What are the guys doing at home that they aren't doing on the road? Why is it so different so much of the time? Which players have huge differences between home and away this year? Not including tonight's numbers because the site hasn't updated yet. Alex Tuch: Home: 10 games 1 goal, 4 assists, -9 Away: 16 games 8 goals, 7 assists, even Tage Thompson: Home 13 games 2 goals, 4 assists, -10 Away: 11 games, 6 goals, 4 assists, +1 Owen Power: Home 15 games 0 goals, 5 assists, -7 Away: 18 games, 1 goal, 6 assists, +1 Zach Benson: Home 10 games 0 goals, 1 assist, -4 Away: 13 games, 4 goals, 6 assists, +2 Casey Mittelstadt: Home 15 games, 2 goals, 7 assists, even Away: 18 games, 6 goals, 12 assists, +3 Everyone else is close in their home v. road production or worse on the road like Jost which makes sense as teams can actively matchup against him away from home. I want to know why these guys have been so bad at home. Sure Benson and Power are young. Fine. Tuch, Thompson, and Mittelstadt aren't. Which then would make it incumbent upon KA to acquire a better goaltender to backstop that type of group. We have asked for that move for at least 3 years now. It does not seem to be a priority for anyone but us.

Facing ECHL level goaltending helped. If they care about the guy they need to stop mailing it in on a regular basis. They obviously won't win every night, but there's no excuse for being as dog water as they have been on more than few occasions.