It's Time For Ownership To Step Up And Do Something About The Waterdogs
The Waterdogs season is coming dangerously close to being over before it even ever begins. They are 0-3 to start the season, with 3 straight losses coming by just 1-goal. They played 2 games this past weekend as the host team for week 3 action, and both games were overtime losses. You could chalk that up to just having awful luck if you wanted to, but luck has nothing to do with it.
The issue is pure negligence. Because the Waterdogs went into this season overthinking the shit out of the sport of lacrosse. They went into this season thinking they were smarter than everybody else by not rostering a faceoff guy. Saturday's game against the Boston Cannons proved that was a miscalculation of biblical proportions after Cannons' faceoff guy Zac Tucci single-handedly destroyed the Aqua Pups.
First up he completely cancelled out Waterdogs powerplay by winning a man-down faceoff and immediately taking it to the rack to score shorthanded.
Then he scored a massive 2-pointer hail mary at the end of the 1st half to take any shred of momentum away from the Waterdogs heading into halftime.
And then finally, he put the dagger in the 'Dogs just 5 seconds into overtime after winning the faceoff clean and the Waterdogs didn't even think to stop the break.
It's some of the worst coaching I've ever witnessed. The Waterdogs were losing faceoffs all afternoon. They didn't think that Tucci might win that one forward to himself and let a shot go after he already scored twice earlier in the day? It's ridiculous. It was ridiculous to not use the bye week to bring in a faceoff guy in the first place after losing their week 1 game by 1-goal and going 2/25 on faceoffs. But if you're still going to go without a faceoff guy, you at least have to be ready to stop a break like that. Especially in overtime.
Then came game 2 of the weekend. Each week of the season, one team is the "host" and plays on both days of the weekend in front of the home crowd. The Waterdogs let the win slip away on Saturday, but at least they had a chance to win one at home on Sunday.
There were 31 faceoffs on the day and the Waterdogs lost all of them. That's 31 more times the Whipsnakes had the ball. Maybe if the Waterdogs win 13-14 of those faceoffs, that game doesn't even go to overtime in the first place. But that's 3 games in a row where they didn't dress a faceoff guy, and now 3 games in a row they've lost by 1 goal.
It's time for ownership to get up off their ass and do something about it. I get not wanting to be a bunch of Jerry Joneses and getting overly involved with every aspect of the team. But you have to do something here. I mean there is literally a guy whose nickname is the "Milk Man" who was an all-star last year and is a free agent right now. You don't think these guys would want the Milk Man on their team?
This guy was born to play for the Waterdogs.
It's time. Ownership needs to give the 'Dogs an ultimatum here. Either you sign Connor Farrell by the end of the week, or you sell the team. Simple as that.