Yeah, we suck! We have two more wins than the Leafs, but the only other team right now with a worse record is the Wild (yeah, the Isles beat Carolina in the skills contest tonight).

If this team didn’t have such a toothless power play, it might have been closer after all those Buffalo penalties in the second. But the real problem is that they have no sense of urgency. They don’t play a whole game like they want to win. And even when they were in the Sabres’ end and getting shots, they looked a step behind. Something’s horribly wrong with the Panthers.

I always thought the point of a fight was to change the momentum of a game. I respect that if Nate isn’t getting it done on the scoreboard, he’s at least trying to use his fists to get the team motivated. However, by the time he was sent off, the game was way out of hand and his effort was for naught.

Agree, pulling Clemmensen was a panic move that maybe a more experienced coach would not have made. I would have much rather seen a timeout.
  
This team is not mature in any way. Players are sleepwalking skating through the games. Nice to see Ballard benched for a bit, need the same with Horton.
Not at all impressed with his last minute stupidity with the game out of reach.
Where was that when Booth went head first into the boards in the first period.

No heart, no guts, no emotion. Today’s practice should be 45 minutes of hard skating, no pucks, no sticks. First one to toss their cookies, adds 5 minutes.
Get in shape, get prepared and play like professionals.
This is embarassing.

PdB had to try something, even if it came right out of Mike Keenan’s playbook. Honestly, I was far more surprised that Pete didn’t re-insert Clemmer later in the game.

Well, last night was exactly how I expect this team to perform all season. I’m sorry to rain on anybody’s parade, but that is kind of how I saw the entire season play out. The Cats just don’t have enough offensive talent to compete, I’m pretty sure nobody here really deluded themselves into thinking this.

What we have is solid goaltending (for the most part). We continue to have a marginal D that gives up way too many shots and we have a great 2nd line, decent 3rd line (which is playing 2nd line) and a 4th line that would be ok if it wasn’t playing as the 3rd line and a line that probably shouldn’t be in the NHL.

This team is going to win games this season (I expect not a lot though) by hard work and taking advantage of opponent miscues (Peter DeBoer’s system) – See Philly game as example. However, if they get down a few, they are done like dinner.

I am hopefully that somehow they play way above their heads and actually compete for that 8th playoff spot, but other than a few lousy teams in the East, I don’t know if the Cats can realistically expect to be in that hunt.