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Originally Posted by barbogast
Agreed. It's like they kinda just wait around until they win. Which most nights they're good enough to do that. The record doesn't indicate it, and it may sound weird if you aren't paying close attention to the team, but they haven't been all that great for the last couple weeks. Kinda sloppy, pretty passive. Waiting for things to happen. Just kinda feels lethargic.
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All of this. Next couple weeks will be a true test to Trotz and the leadership of the team to get them focused and back on track. The issue has been not coming out and setting the tone.
In all honesty I'm kind of ok with them 'cruising' right now. They just need to turn it on come end of March.
I've noticed recently too that the Caps 3rd line production has severely dwindled lately. When they were crushing that 3rd line was really producing and rolling. I think I saw Chimera only had 6 points all month in February, which is not necessarily on pace to his previous production this year.
One thing I've noticed over the past couple months is Wilson's play has been much more controlled. Not sure if Trotz had him start controlling his play recently to try and shake his 'bad boy' image. But there was a point earlier in the year where any questionable hit or play by Wilson the refs were blowing the whistle very quickly....Just did a quick look and calculation, last year Wilson had a 2.56 PIM/game and it's down to 2.16 this year.