Troubling Trends: Balancing Undefeated with Mediocre Play

Jubilation and excitement meshed with crustiness and bitterness. Welcome to hockey season!

Let's get this out of the way first: most, if not all, of us would probably take an undefeated team that hasn't been playing very well over a winless team that's been playing great. This isn't a panic article, nor a prophecy of an impending Pred-pocalypse.

Rather, it's an acknowledgement that though they are without a loss, things have to chance if they want continued success, and the room for improvement is there. In all three games they've allowed the other team to take control of the game, are constantly trying to play catch up, and worse... aren't scoring. If not for Pekka Rinne and his abilities to…