Carbery won the Jack Adams last year. Doubt he will get fired.
but yeah, he won it basically because the Caps so over-achieved last year. He deserves some of that credit, but bunches of guys had career years, and that's great but an anomaly.
Now they've come back down to earth and their lack of talent is exposed, and a bunch of guys are having off years on top of it...not to mention your core guys are OLD, so they look terrible. Plus, to be fair, one major injury to PLD fucks the whole lineup and we've had quite a few injuries here and there as well.
That's to be expected, but when some of your best (or at least hopefully your best) talent is out, and you are already short on talent, then it just exacerbates the problems. (big word inserted just for you Mick)
Seems to me this team has always struggled at the C position. One year we had two great centers; 2018 Backy and Kuzy and what a year the team had. Last year, Strome and PLD both played very well and the team over achieved despite it's overall level of talent. And honestly won many games last year they should not have.
I'm not sure Strome or PLD are either really a top line C. Strome certainly has grown into a better C with the Caps and is effective, but he's more on 2C level I think. Same with PLD.
Don't forget - this is Caps hockey - the fans are supposed to get their hopes up and then be disappointed...year after year after year after year.
