Nashville Predators @ Columbus Blue Jackets

• pkebker

  Are we a playoff team underperforming now? Or are we a team that made the playoffs by performing beyond our ability last season?
• End of Line

  

  pkebker wrote: Are we a playoff team underperforming now? Or are we a team that made the playoffs by performing beyond our ability last season?

  They have the ability to make to playoffs. This team has been in some kind of funk.
• TedSheckler

  

  pkebker wrote: Are we a playoff team underperforming now? Or are we a team that made the playoffs by performing beyond our ability last season?

  I think last year they played over their heads and got in. This year, I think they are a playoff team, but not playing like it.
• End of Line

  

  ^^^^^I agree.
• pkebker

  So how do you get out of this funk...coaching change? similar to like the Penguins last year...Or just one of our leaders need to step up and take control?
• End of Line

  

  The Jackets aren't ready for a coaching change. The leaders do need to step up. Perhaps Captain Nashs' mind is focused on winning gold at the olympics.
• NNN

  

  It's a randomly timed team-wide slump. It's magnified due to a lot of players being ineffective at the same time, as opposed to a different type of slump which involves a smaller number of players cycling through their own personal ones.
  
  Better to get it out of the way now. But then, I said last year at Christmas that the CBJ would go at least 10 games over .500 the rest of the way....I underestimated them.
• pkebker

  is Mason our goalie of the future?
• End of Line

  

  ^^^^^Obviously.
• pkebker

  What I meant was that do you think he's capable of playing at a high level consistently and be a dominant frachise goalie? Or was he just really hot last year and this is the level of play he's really at?