Refs fault again?
- Fakepartofme

Nope. They played poorly.

The season is already starting to teeter the wrong way. Just slightly. .

Imo you have to either run ullmark until he gets his game or bench him and run forsberg. And let the cards fall where they do.
I thought greene was going to hold players accountable. Well ullmark has been bad... so wheres the accountabilty. But i dont mind running him for next 3 games. See if he can put it together or bench him after that

The season is already starting to teeter the wrong way. Just slightly. .

Imo you have to either run ullmark until he gets his game or bench him and run forsberg. And let the cards fall where they do.
I thought greene was going to hold players accountable. Well ullmark has been bad... so wheres the accountabilty. But i dont mind running him for next 3 games. See if he can put it together or bench him after that
- spazzbot

Getting Ullmark back on his game has to be a top priority. The question is how to do that. My preference would be to sit him after a poor to mediocre outing to have him focus on practice. If he plays well in his next start, play him two games in a row but no more than that.

during the Anderson era, OTT had actual good coaching and team defense, post Anderson era OTT has not had any NHL level coaching or defense and that includes current coach. OTT defensive system is let the other team shoot, hope you block it, hope the G can stop if you don't, hope they don't score, hope to get the puck, hope you get out of the zone with puck and hope your not to tired to attack...no team can or will win with a system like that.

Green is smith 2.0
- Mithos

Some if it was team defense with Andy, some may have been EK playing 30 minutes a game.

But when he was on his game, Andy was completely reliable. He was not letting in a stinker.

This team goes back and forth game.to game, one game the goalies let them down, the next the defence is awful. Either way, Need Ullmark to get back on his game.

It’s not yet panic button time but I expected a better effort last night facing a team at home who just played the night before. Sturt Skinner is one of the worst statistical goalies in the NHL right now and the Sens made him look like a top 10 tender. This, right after getting shutout by a minor league journeyman in Carolina.

Chabot and Zub did not have great games. I’d even go as far as I think it might be worth considering scratching Zub for JBD. Zub seems like a shell of his former self. I don’t know if the injuries are catching up with him. Everyone wants to bench Hamonic, but I feel Zub has played worse of late. It would certainly provide a shakeup for a team that looks a little complacent.

Brady has not looked like his usual self all year. The production offensively is kind of there, but he looks disinterested and downright lazy a lot of the time. He’s gliding more and not taking an extra stride or two to finish a check or fight for loose pucks. Stutzle has looked more like a leader this year, honestly.

Ullmark has not been good. I still think you run with him to get him into a groove, but patients is going to wear thin, fast. Even when he stops the puck, he looks like he doubts himself making the save.

I would like to see some more accountability from Green. Do some significant benchings, have an animated timeout, callout some guys to the media. Will it do anything? Maybe not, but it would be different than what DJ Smith was doing which was just letting these guys go through the motions.

It's approaching the quarter point of the year, and we saw Boston pull the plug on their coach. I wonder if Staios is using this time for some decisions.

Really starting to lose interest in this team ..... kind of like this team seems to be losing interest in playing hockey.

Ullmark needs to be way better. WAY better. Maybe part of it is the fact he basically did not have a training camp and was injured for a stretch of games. Maybe he just needs more repetition.
As for Brady, I have to think he is injured in some way because his game is just slow and at times he seems uninterested.

We'll win the next 5 games in November. It's fine.