About this 8 game road trip from hell...

[northernlou]

heading off on a low after losing at home, in a scoring drought with unreliable goaltending. So it's on the buses off to....

Dallas - Dec 19
Nashville - dec 21
Minnesota - dec 22
Washington - dec 26
Tampa Bay - dec 28
Florida - dec 29
Boston - Jan 1
Philadelphia jan 5

wondering aloud if hoping on a .500 road trip is optimistic.

 

[Habs-25]

Nashville, Florida, Boston and probably Phily is possible. I am not very optimist but i would be happy if we come back .500.

 

[GEEMAN]

Time for our leaders to step up and produce

 

[XPOFAN]

Time for our leaders to step up and produce

I'm ready

 

[XPOFAN]

Could lose all 8

 

[Krustchev]

Could lose all 8

If in OT that's okay.

 

[XPOFAN]

If in OT that's okay.

Don't think we will. I can see maybe a 3-4-1 record. Hope for a bit of a turn around and we go 5-2-1.

 

[Krustchev]

Don't think we will. I can see maybe a 3-4-1 record. Hope for a bit of a turn around and we go 5-2-1.

Based on what? Given our goaltending and inability to score, I'll be surprised if we win more than 2 games.

 

[XPOFAN]

Based on what? Given our goaltending and inability to score, I'll be surprised if we win more than 2 games.

Well we will see come early January. Will you survive?

 

[Krustchev]

Well we will see come early January. Will you survive?

I'll be fine, thanks.

 

[XPOFAN]

I'll be fine, thanks.

Good to hear. I worry about you at times

 

[Krustchev]

But I might skip the game here on Jan. 5.

 

[XPOFAN]

But I might skip the game here on Jan. 5.

Can't really blame you.

 

[CH1]

Based on what? Given our goaltending and inability to score, I'll be surprised if we win more than 2 games.

If we provide the effort we displayed last night, even our B sniper team will manage to score enough to go .500 +.

I dare say you suffer from #recencybias.

My prediction is based on our goaltending duo holding up and not losing games 5-4 or 4-3.

 

[Sal_Butera]

Need 8 of a possible 16-pts anything more is a bonus.

 

[Dr.Phibes]

Need 8 of a possible 16-pts anything more is a bonus.

Yes. At this point a .500 trip would be welcome. Would be great to beat B's on January 1.

 

[Habs53]

Guess 31 is the whole team

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

Well we are winning possession and allegedly that is all that matters these days.

 

[Habs53]

Well we are winning possession and allegedly that is all that matters these days.

Not where it counts

 

[Krustchev]

Well we are winning possession and allegedly that is all that matters these days.

No but what it does say, I think, is that adding a bona fide sniper up front to go along with Max wil resolve most of our issues. I didn't feel that way last year until the playoffs, when we started to control the play for the most part but couldn't score - you know, like now. Same issue but can be fixed.