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I think possibly the bottom six are just so afraid to make a mistake defensively that they are tight when it comes to offense and squeezing the stick a little too hard. It would be easy to fall into getting use to the big guns doing all the scoring as long as we keep it out of our net mentality. This is a re run of last year because that mind set hasn't changed. Too much McDavid and Drai to make a more balanced team effort, they get all the prime ice time. If anything you have to give the bottom guys a little more so they can get their offensive juices going and not just sick the big dogs on the other team when things are not going so well or to try to assure a win. Tippet wanted to get the team off to a good start so he used them more than is sustainable in the early going, but that only holds up if they are 100% healthy and the more that continues the less likely they will be. The injuries haven't helped either. I say it's too soon to panic, the Washington game will be a better indicator of what this team has. If they aren't ready for that one it could be a long night. All that said, there are going to be bad games in the course of the season and certain players will have bad games no matter how good a team you have.

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