Although, this year's middling start just does not ~feel~ like last year's. Last year, everyone knew and felt that this was a strong team and a slow start didn't change that. This year's team...well...they have just not been very good. Their starting goaltender -
Matt Murray - is already on the shelf (shocker), and few on the team are playing up to snuff. Not the highly paid stars nor the bottom-six are getting their jobs done, the defense is atrocious, and the goaltending - no disrespect to
Ilya Samsonov and Erik Kallgren - is not good enough.