Through my years of playing competitive hockey I've seen how other players are only good with other good players. When their support is gone and they have to be the person that makes things happen their game drops because they just can't do it.
Nash is a great player, he put up huge numbers in the Olympics for Canada when he had players that could open up plays for him and get him the puck, he's just not a facilitator.
Yes, we are missing two solid defensive players, but we've had a solid defense in past years and CBJ offense just plain does not produce the way they need to. They don't sustain any real pressure in the offensive zone. You don't see the CBJ offense outworking a team to exhaustion in the offensive zone. It's literally dump and chase 2-1-2 hockey to start the game, a goal gets scored on either end and they play 1-2-2 hockey to play it safe.
I wanted to see the CBJ pick up Bryzgalov (sp?) and give Mason a reason to earn/ hold his spot.
They need some time to grow as a team, we've made a decent amount of changes this year, but this start has all of their heads hanging low, and Nash isn't going to do anything in the locker room to pull their heads up.
CBJ will be out of playoff contention before December.
I still enjoy having a hockey team in Columbus regardless of how good or bad they are. Just my thoughts on the team.