Pucks

Not bad for Stuart. I always think players like that could find there games with the wings, maybe it's the Lidstrom factor.

Don't get me wrong I love the wings style and don't want this to be a team full of goons bye any stretch of the imagination. I heard an interview with ken holland on the radio and he said " if we could only have scored on the 5 on 3's we liked our chances". That's the one thing about him i don't like, he always wants to through more goals at everything. How about why the hell do you have to score 5 goals to win a game against the ducks. A lot of things could have made a difference, like have our other two top 4 d in the lineup or maybe having some size to control the bigger players swarming our zone. A couple of bounces and we could have beat the ducks, but a couple of bounces and the sharks could have beat us so... Oh and Crymson its a discussion if you don't want to discuss why come here. The discussion is like year because the same issues again apply.

Maybe panic isn't the right word here but the roster as is stands right now is your typical ken holland regular season buffet. Sprinkle in a smallish top six winger and some worthless depth D (that we don't need by the way) and we can blow through the central without much trouble. We did manage to get a little younger but we are too soft and small to get to the cup finals. And before anyone says "Did you watch the playoffs" of course but this roster isn't going to beat the sharks and certainly not the ducks. That said it is only the second day but theres nothing left out there in forwards worth having so how is kenny going to get the size we need in the top six? Trades? RFA offers? I don't know but he's got his work cut out from him. If he can't actually get the pieces we need than just let the kids play and see what they got and if they are really good (hudler) than maybe we can use them as trade bait to get what we need.