The Chemistry is Gone
Someone call Walter from Breaking Bad because we need a good chemist. This team needs someone to cast some voodoo. Perhaps some bonding lessons? Start a new scooter gang? Something.
Whatever chemistry this team had last year and earlier this year is gone. They don't know where they are on the ice let alone each other anymore. #CARvsPHI
— Cardiac Cane (@CardiacCane) March 6, 2020
Many of the blind passes, especially those happening in the offensive zone are going to the wrong jerseys. Only once, midway in the first period before Provorov’s goal did they show any real signs of generating offense. There was some good passing, good keeping of the puck, and good general positioning inside the zone. Then poof, it disappeared and was never seen again, like it flew into the bermuda triangle.
If this team wants to be serious about making the playoffs and perhaps even competing for a Stanley Cup they need to figure each other out. They need to bond behind something. I thought that something was going to be David Ayres, but there are three players from that night that are now gone to injury or trade. In are two new players that just saw it all on the news.
Perhaps this loss can be the thing that drives them to come back. They have now fallen all the way down to seventh in the division. I am upset, the fanbase is pretty upset, Rod can’t be anywhere near happy and as for the players themselves:
On a positive (?) note the Canes might be as pissed off as I’ve ever seen them
— Sara Civ (@SaraCivian) March 6, 2020
Pissed off is good. Pissed off means that they are going to start playing for each other as a team. This is it. This is the crew that needs to get it done. Don’t worry about Petr Mraze, James Reimer, or even Sami Vatanen coming back. The only ones that are going to save this team are the ones on the roster tonight.
That wasn’t obvious last night, but there are still 17 games to go and three points to make up and a game in hand. The next game against the Islanders will be the real turning point of the season if they can show real chemistry on Long Island.