Can Hank ever just say it was an awful goal and on me 100%, I take full responsibility. He dances around it by saying things like you saw it, and then puck luck and some other BS. Just say flat out please Hank it was an awful goal to allow and I take full responsibility...PLEASE.
Look, Hank has been a god to this organization for 10 + years. The only reason we won many many games throughout the years. The biggest reason by miles that we made the long runs we did. And Sather let the guy down big time by giving him zero scoring year after year. So we need to keep sight of that and understand what he has meant to this organization for a long time.
With that said today in the now he is what he is. He is not a top level goalie anymore. He is still very good, for the most part, overall, but night in and night out he is no longer in that upper level. He is now a solid goalie, one that you can win with, but not one that will carry you on his shoulders. Issue is this team is mostly built for him to be the latter. I say mostly built that way because I do think we have talent on D and upfront, more than we have had in a little while I think, but we are lacking another top 9 C to round it out. And Hank also has an 8.5 mill cap hit which really limits our ability to add that one more piece.
7 games does not a season make, but right now it is darn hard to see this team getting their sh*t together and making a run in the regular season, let alone the playoffs (if we get there which obviously is a HUGE question mark right now). Could be a LONG season.