I’ll grant you the ugg about Spurgeon skating into defenders, wtf, but we ended up winning the opening faceoff and guys get caught out long in OT all the time…
I get all that. The point was that from even before the puck drop of overtime nothing was going right and that trend continued right until the puck ended up in the back of our net. The whole overtime approach looked like amateur hour.
Despite a lot of changes behind the bench I still don’t have any confidence in the Wild special teams approach. I’m totally with you obviously the wilds power play has become totally predictable. It is clearly easy to defend and every opponent seems to be on the same page with how to do it.
It’s hard to say whether the PK has been better because we’ve been playing low end teams. The approach to overtime look like a gong show. I suppose we can be charitable and blame it on the fact that this was the tail end of a long road trip. Let’s hope that’s the case.
and yes, I hear your arguments that his production and the fact he’s a competent young center for a franchise that has been starved for one is reason enough to keep him, but you gotta play the long game if you’re GMBG
Why would the center starved Minnesota Wild trade away what is now a first line centerman to get a defenseman with a grade A D man like Buium in the wings?
Billy Gee doesn’t have a long game to play. He can talk about 5-year plans and a whole bunch of crap but the reality is if this team doesn’t make the playoffs this season and make a showing then the likelihood of Billy resigning Kaprizov goes down significantly. And so does the likelihood of Billy keeping his job.
