A piping hot 8-2-2 start, as encouraging as it was unexpected, raised expectations that this group might possess playoff pedigree. A limbo bar that has since been ratcheted down closer to the floorboards on the heels of a ghastly 1-5-4 slide.
Indeed, the way things are going? It feels like we’ll be hard-pressed to win a game here and there. Especially since we face one of the more difficult schedules the rest of the way. Hardly conducive to qualifying for the playoffs on both counts.
While I have no doubt the team will recover somewhat when Evgeni Malkin and Blake Lizotte return from IR, should our priorities change?