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Goal-tending has been trash this year, but Lalonde isn't doing anything within the realm of appropriate to cover for that weakness. For example, when Babs saw his entire defense become complete poopy besides Kronwall (DK, KFQ, Kindl, Smith, Ouellet, and Marchenko rounding out the roster) he appropriately buttoned down the hatches, and it worked. Why? Because he correctly identified that still had superb defensive forwards in his forward group, like Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Helm, Glendening, and others, as well as a decent enough goalie in Howard. So he could go into a low event shell (and play entire games this way), and his forwards and goalie would cover for his terrible D. It sucked for us fans to watch, but it worked and we still managed to make the playoffs. THIS team is not built at all the same way. 1. We have no Howards - our net is trash 2. The only good shutdown defenders we have are Walman and Seider, and in fact we have multiple purely offensive minded Dmen like Ghost and Petry. 3. We have exactly ZERO stalwart defensive forwards. Our best probably being Compher (And DO NOT tell me Dylan zero Selke votes Larkin is some kind of Zberg or Dats). What this team does well is SCORE. Dcat, Larkin, Raymond, Kane, Ghost, Seider, Compher, even Walman is hitting the stat sheet like never before in his career. We are not built to back off. If we backoff our terrible goalies get lit up and there's no one to stop that. If Lalonde was intelligent he would have realized this 20 games ago. We HAVE to play a full 60, and we HAVE to go for number 6 and 7 when we are up by 5. It's the only way. Fuq Derek this guy is trash.

Your wish is about to come true

Fire Lalonde. This team is doing the same crap every time they have a big lead.

No walman no cry

He and Kasper both. And Mazur. And Cossa. And Zetterberg.

Sorry, I didn't recognize the other GDT as a GDT. Please delete.

Maatta will probably be out a while, So Edvinsson was called up. Let the Edvinsson era begin.

LOL Broberg is a bust, Holland would be lucky to get a 5th round pick for him right now, We still need RHD not LHD. I seriously doubt that Edmonton can afford Bouchard long term. And there's absolutely no freaking way Kane waives for Edmonton, He's already stated numerous times that he wants to remain in the Eastern Conference.

might agree with you if it was only reimer. but every goalie we put in is getting lit up. its our shyte defense, dude. Yzerman was able to grab these 5 guys for next to nothing for a reason. They suck. 50 goals against in 10 games. something has to change.

Jesus I was joking. This game is s allllllll on the goalie. No coach talk allowed.

Are you serious ? why aren't we attacking

Mr Hyde is back