More of the same for New York

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Status Quo. Beat the good/better teams, lose to the bad teams. Edmonton has one of the best players in the NHL, they were only six over, and don't have the goaltending. Remain ten over, only three outside Caps/last playoff cut. Win 1-0/lose scoring four goals by many players who do not score often.

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Long term this is not the way. It should not even be the short-term way. It's hardly a roster with stacked defensive forwards who can circle the wagons and play for a 1-0/2-1 win by design. Sure Schaefer is special in every area, Pelech/Pulock are playing great. Mayfield has been solid enough. DeAngelo has good and unplayable moments, and Boqvist is not a LD, and makes fatal errors. Most of the forwards are not reliable defensively which is why we see so many turnovers like Pageau who killed them in Vancouver with his non-clear with 19.0 seconds left in the second. Roy does not even use Gatcomb/MacClean to kill penalties, and that's with Horvat out. Do they need to keep some of these players to keep this 1-0/2-1 strategy? No. Most of the players who give them nothing could leave/should leave for players who will turn those 1-0/2-1 games into the 3-2/4-3 wins they desperately need moving foward.

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Ok, ten over is not enough but it's great with this roster and so many players who can't score. No one is going to tell me Drouin belongs in the lineup over anyone much less Tsyplakov who was as good as Heineman last season. Roy keeps going with the joy strategy which is comical but not for a professional coach, and a lot of bad signings by Darche who he cannot unload fast enough. It's nice Duclair had two goals this week, he's been a bust, as has Lee, Shabanov. Ritchie played eleven minutes vs Edmonton and made the kind of pass for the goal on the powerplay Palmieri did not make when he was healthy and not scoring into empty nets.

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