Primeau was brutal & continues to show that he’s not an NHL goaltender. Every time they put him in you expect them to lose. He may be the worse goalie in the entire league right now! He has a saving percentage of .840 which is absolutely brutal! You can’t win hockey games with that type of goaltending! You can’t win in hockey when you keep on allowing 6+ goals per game!
The lack of consistent effort has been a big problem this season. Inconsistency has been a killer. Goaltending (i’m looking at you, Primeau!) has been atrocious at times. The lack of right defencemen on the team has hurt. Young players like Strubble & Guhle should play on the wrong side! It’ll hurt their development & currently it’s hurting the team! They also need a centre to play behind Suzuki. Kirby Dach has no future as a centre. He’s lost out there & couldn’t win a faceoff of his life depended on it!
The biggest problem for me is coaching. Martin St-Louis is NOT an NHL coach. Period. And if you look at his track record in coaching it’s obvious that the experiment has failed. Yes, he was an experiment. I’m starting to believe that whomever had the brilliant idea to name someone who has never coached before either is a huge Ted Lasso fan or he must have been unaware of the disastrous experiment from the 90’s when team president Ronald Corey fired his coach & GM & replaced them with Mario Tremblay & Rejean Houle! Both had no experience in their new jobs as coach & GM which reminds me of the current situation with MSL & Kent Hughes, both hired with no experience in their new jobs.
Finally Kent Hughes has been a big disappointment this season. He hasn’t done anything to help his team be better. No trades that would help the team. At least it would show the fans the team hates losing & wants to improve the crappy product they’re selling. Now i look at the trades he’s made & several he made look terrible now. Say whatever you think of Marc Bergevin but there’s no doubt he cared tremendously for his team & wanted it to win! He made a lot of trades…a lot! And many of the smaller ones he made turned out great for the team! Bergie’s biggest fault as a GM was that he cared too much for his players…especially his favorites & he was loyal to them to a fault which is he got caught up in granting bad contracts. And if Marc Bergevin would have told the media & the fans that this season the team would be ‘in the mix’ for a playoffs spot i guarantee you that he would have meant every word & would have gone out of his way to make it happen!
