I also question moving Z-Bad to Spezza's wing. He should have left the Michalek-Z-Bad-Conacher line together and just put Spezza with the leftovers.NEELY wrote:Michallica wrote:NEELY wrote:Michallica wrote:Paul Maclean hasn't been good. What was the need to put in kassian and take out Dacosta on saturday? Kassian sure kept kadri honest.
Did I mention I hate losing to the mother fukcking leafs?
What's MacLean to do? Kassian has been fine all year and truth is for some reason the Sens play well with him in the lineup. If the Sens end up winning that game then MacLean looks like a genius. When you are down by 1 or are tied and you are trying to win the game, yah, Kassian is pretty much useless because he can't take a penalty to send a message.
MacLean has kept the Turris line together because it's amazing. The Smith line with Greening and Neil have been solid as well. Condra is a 4th line winger who does his job on the PK and Conacher is pretty much the guy that's just kind of there that he throws out there. He's tried every combination in the world with Spezza and NOTHING WORKS. The D? Well easy decisions with Phillips out and the youth showed on Saturday night for sure but that happens with a group which I can personally accept because it's part of the curve... be it Cowen letting Kessel get to the net or Gryba's turn over, it happens.
What I can't except? Well everyone knows so I won't say it again in this little rant.
Well Maclean lost and messed with a winning lineup. Oh and I don't know what our record is but I don't think we've won a single game against the leafs with kassian in there. Yes, 100% maclean deserves blame. If he won, I'd sing his praises but bottom line is he coached a team that LOST. Hence he deserves blame as well.
Again I have a hard time blaming MacLean right now because of the players he currently has. Everyone understood the Kassian move whether they agreed or disagreed with it, the move was transparent. Was Da Costa the difference there? No. Did Kassian do what he was supposed to do? Yes.
Blaming MacLean for the lack of response IMO is 100% accurate, that's his job to get his team focused. That said it wasn't because of the Kassian move.
Only thing that MacLean really screwed up this year IMO was taking Lehner out of the net and putting Anderson is when Lehner was playing incredible. Other than that he has done well with a crowded blueline and a questionable captain.
MacArthur-Turris-Ryan
Condra-Spezza-DaCosta (until Stone comes back)
Michalek-Zibanejad-Conacher
Greening-Smith-Neil
Some of this is on Murray for calling up a centre instead of a winger, but whatever, it's the coach that lines them up.