If individual players are just hoping to increase their stats, they sure took a funny approach to getting it. Tkachuk sure doesn't look like a guy with 92 points. I wouldn't say that Gaudreau was that bad, but I didn't see a lot of positives from the top line. Not exactly sure how we got away from Mangiapane up there, but the combination of Matty on the top line and Mange/Toffee with Backlund sure looked bad.
Not a lot of practice left, so the players need to get out of their system whatever has creeped in the last couple of games. I don't know if this is accurate or not, but it seemed like one player from each unit (D or F) was trying things that they are not comfortable with.
Tkachuk - he's making blind passes
Backlund - forgetting his defensive assignments
Jarnkrok - not seeing a lot of what made him good, maybe he just needs to move to wing
Lucic - the only thing more obvious than his headhunting was his poor play with the puck
Zaddy - too many times he could make a simple play and he tries something else
This is by no means the only problems, it's just what I saw while I was watching intently. Kinda stopped watching all the details after they "lost it". This is obviously the culmination of issues that have been in parts of previous games. Tkachuk had scored 3 goals in a game he was playing crappy in. The D seemed a little out of sorts at times. The F were not worrying about the D-zone.