Take Town: It gets late early

I truly cannot believe that we're only about a week into the season and there are multiple coaches who are getting "Well, I mean he might get fired soon," talk already. I mean, I've seen the Vancouver Canucks play, I've seen the New Jersey Devils play, and I definitely get why people are looking at them askance, even aside from the underwhelming results.

These are teams that simply do not look good, but it must be said that a lot of determining what does and does not look good is post-facto. Ask a self-described goalie expert why Goaltender X is playing well, and you'll hear something along the lines of, "They're doing the right things with their angles and moving their heads to effectively track the puck." But this kind of behaviour is apparently not predictive, and goalies may sometimes s