Marvin

Sadly, the way I figured out what the defencive system is to watch what they try to do when they are successful. That gets you the thumbnail sketch. Then, when the omnipresent breakdown occurs, ask yourself, "if the guys knew what they were doing, how would they have avoided that gaffe?" Put them together and you can deduce their defencive system. Sad but true -- figuring out the system by negative inference is a first in my book. There is a part of me that wonders what it will take to get proper defence through players' skulls.

I agree with @GASabresIUFAN, but I have specific ideas on why. Perhaps you should explain your rationale to @Taro T rather than being so dismissive.

Assuming that his daughters still feel the same way, I think that they don't want him too. They wanted the Cup wins to be like family heirlooms. Aside 1: Are there talks about Granato getting better assistants? PP coach would be a great place to start. Aside 2: I personally can tell what Granato is trying to do on defence, which should eventually work. Why is it trouble in the NHL club and a massive disaster often in Rochester? I know youth is part of it, but it should not be this bad. I find it hard to believe that it is so common for players to not be aware of their defencive positioning, assignments, and reads. The players are often so clueless that it is as if this is the first time that the players had to cover their own zone.

Welcome back. This year really looked better, but missing 2-4 top 6 forwards for most games exposed the lack of depth. That is aside from the team still learning to play defence while the offence is suffering.

Welcome to the board. And awesome.

Some of the joy got sucked out of me with the decision for The Tank. I am philosophically opposed to it. I also did not like the animosity from fans at games because I was rooting for them to win. It still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth and it caused me to stop trying to watch all of the games. The long drought has been made worse by the sometimes unwatchable play. That put the damper on my already waning enthusiasm for this team. My health took a hit with long COVID, so I find myself sleeping through games that I might otherwise have watched or attended. I don't know how much more interested and passionate I would be if my health improved. This season has been a big disappointment, but I am hoping that as the roster gets healthier, then the performance will improve. The horrid drafting before GMKA really shows in the lack of depth.

I have been told that I am an odd man. My wife will attest to that. Does that count?

I thank thee for the support. I doth speaketh the King's English bigly goodly.

They have not learnt defencive awareness yet and this where it is the most obvious. I am hoping that, with more practice, that this will improve as the season wears on.

Why isn't offencive offsides not an automatic whistle like, say, illegal motion?

Point of fact: the team that came from the furthest back on 1 January to make the playoffs was the 2010-1 Buffalo Sabres. So one can always say that we did it before, so we can do it again.

IMHO, he would be a great choice.

KO is just old. Krebs has some growing to do (I hope). Z turned himself into a checker because that was what he figured that he needed to do to stay in the league. Jost is a marginal NHLer. We need to remember that the hit rate for 1st round picks plummets from pick 1 rather quickly -- and I am using "hit rate" rather loosely here.

The holes in the bottom of the line-up are the product of years of sub-mediocre drafting after the 1st round. This team can barely tolerate 1 forward injury, let alone 4. I hate to say it, but assuming there are not any more injuries once Tuch, Quinn, Greenway, and Girgensons come back, then Okposo should be, um, "load-managed." Also, even after sending Murray back down, we would still be 2 over the roster limit. I recommend sending Krebs and Bryson down.

Hilarious tune.

Should Taylor Swift write a song about NFL officiating?

Because we are stuck with him, I hope he hires an assistant coach who can advise against his tendency to play not to lose. Marv Levy had the late Elijah Pitts. McDermott needs this more than Levy did.

Under Ruff, when the PP failed to click with Briere, Drury, Connolly, et al., he did some subtle and not-so subtle things to help it out. I recall that he had an all-LH PP and an all-RH PP for a while and goaltenders took a while to figure out that they needed to subtly adjust their positioning. For another set of games, he had two players in the high and low slot to give a passer on the boards more than one option. He also had the PP attack from different directions in the zone. They need some creative thinking other than the 1-3-1 alignment because they seem to be incapable of breaking down the discipline of the defenders' box.

The last person to know that a player is finished is the player himself.

They did have Senator Blutarski's graduating class towards the end before the credits.

Hold your horses on Quinn. He needs to get into game shape yet.

This was maybe the best game for the Samuelsson-Power defence pair.

In that case, Okposo should never be on the ice with Krebs again.

Is it just me, or has Krebs been good with face-offs tonight?

I bet the ruling will be that the whistle blew.