And that problem is this: They’re just not very good.
There’s no way to sugarcoat it, especially after back-to-back routs and a three-game losing streak during what both coach and team had identified as a crucially important stretch.
The 2023-24 season can probably be broken up into three parts: You’ve got your early section, what we’ll call the Growing Pains era (sha la la la); follow that with what could be classified as A New Hope, when the team seemed to be figuring things out; and round it out with the current era, the Man These Guys are Really, Really Bad and Forgot How to Hockey™ era.