Melnyk refutes the rumours - kiss of death?

MurderOnIce wrote:

I heard a good Gary Galley quote something like... 'You can't play dump and chase if no-one is willing to chase' The team is successful when they pay attention to what happens after the dump and someone steps up to chase....

They have to learn to get those dumps right, too: hard around the glass or chipped softly into the corners. Those soft, slow rollers along the boards get cut off by the opposing team's goalies, and so quickly moved out by the other team's D, or intercepted on the way into the zone.

It's really a pretty simple tactic, but we're even getting that wrong most of the time, and it's really hampering our forecheck / offence.

Number Twenty Nine wrote:Like in the movie H a n c o c k "Lose. Just one more time....."

That movie is in it's third run already. The 3rd Islanders game, then the Dallas game, then the Edmonton game...

I don't believe anything anymore unless it points to nothing happening.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

The_Dude wrote:I really do not think the problem is with the Coach or the GM.

The buffalo game showed us that the sens can play well, they dominated the 2 -3rd periods.

Lets give them time to Gel, a few rooster changes. Let the players learn the system and master it before changing it all up again.

We have tried change... its only made us worse.

Half a season is not time enough to gel? Gimme a break.

Hartsburg is definitely part of the problem. He wants puck-possession players to play dump and chase hockey. He let the Big 3 run the team for too long. And worse than anything, he has Mike Fisher playing the 1st PP unit on the point while Picard rides the pine.

Even if you dispute that Hartsburg has no fault whatsoever in this, you can't fire the players and you obviously can't deal most of them either.

Actualy , I really do not think 1/2 a season is enough to Gel, especialy not when a team is in this much of a slump. Your right, we can't fire the player, but that does not mean the absolute alternative is fire the coach & GM. Hatsburg was not the coach last season, and we sucked just as much in the 1/2 half. Even Murray last minute attempt to salvage did nothing more then give fans a glimpse of hope. But we have made coaching changed and the problems persist. I'm no rocket scientist, but this leads me to believe the one thing we have in common with last season is the players. You could also say Murray, but I think he has proven to us in the past that he is more then capable of building a kick Donkey hockey team .

I honestly think this team needs time & roster ! There is no miracle fix, and making changes to management every 6 months will only prolong the drought.

agreed ^