Quoting: ChiHawks34
Their defense won’t be a dumpster fire for sure but coming from a guy like me who said the same thing in 2015-2016 defensively from the hawks blew up real quick. When you have laine, Connor, wheeler, little, the beast #55, Ehlers etc you shouldn’t have a one line team.... Maybe something should be done about that if they can’t score lol
It’s the 2c issue. Little and laine have no chemistry but Maurice keeps putting them together. That makes us a 1 line team. However the 3rd and 4th lines also chip in. It’s just the 2nd. That’s why we need a different 2c. With copp’s recent high level of play, maybe he is the guy.
It’s not that they aren’t destroying teams cause they are (3rd highest goals for with the top line being burnt out by half the season
I don’t think this team will be very good this season but it could be. They will make the playoffs but won’t go far. The peices are there but a lot has to go well for this team, especially on the back end. The season after this should be much better with a better d-core then after that, we’re back