Well that was another 20 mins performance by a 20 min team, this has been going on for weeks now, if Blaze had converted that one that hit the crossbar, it would have been 3-0 and probably good night Vienna. Our D is very poor, our physicality sucks, and entertainment value is okay for 20 mins per game, and the other 40 mins is pretty crummy. Myself I can’t see much changing, this is the team we have, this is the coach we have, and so it looks like it’s going to be the same old gags from week to week unfortunately.
The goalies I believe there is now genuine competition between the two for starting games and I am all for that it'll bring the best out of both of them.
Our forwards though has me worried, all that scoring capability but our lines just don't seem to click, our power play absolutely scares me because its one of the weakest power plays we've had, too much passing in my opinion and not enough one timers with a big body screening the goalie, get them rebounds and get shoveling that puck in, I sat and timed one of our pp and in the entire 2 minutes we spent 1:45 cycling the puck and then we lost it and went back on the chase.
Dupont is under incredible pressure as a head coach and I feel like he knows he's bit off more than he can chew but I do have faith he will find his feet but I do think he needs an experienced coach to come in and just nudge him into gear.
Once that clicks he will run a muck in the league