Do you want to know how bad the opening of the season this has been? Tambellini’s teams were better in the first month of their respective seasons. Of course the wheels fell off later on, but at least they hung in there for that opening month.
2008-2009: 4-4-1
2009-2010: 7-5-1
2010-2011: 3-4-2
2011-2012: 7-2-2
2012-2013: 4-2-1 (January)
2013-2014: 3-9-2
This confirms what many of us here on Copper and Blue were saying prior to the opening of this season. After some solid moves made early in his tenure, MacTavish built this team with many ifs and bad bets on this roster. Now it will take a miracle for this team to resuscitate its chances at making the postseason, and we have only concluded the first month of the season. We're in lottery territory again; a place that none of us wanted to see them in again for a long time.