from Craig Morgan of Fox Sports Arizona,

Among the most glaring and disturbing of the Coyotes' deficiencies in a 3-0 loss to Calgary on Saturday was the noticeable difference in speed between the teams....

"I'd like to think that our pace wasn't good enough," he said. "In this game, if you played slow you didn't play very well and we had too many players that played slow."

Unfortunately for the Coyotes, they've looked slower than many opponents this season, and that trend began on opening night when the Winnipeg Jets skated circles around them.

With 24 games providing a healthy sample size for evaluation, that issue could signal a continuation of the gradual youth movement that is already underway in Glendale with the call-ups of forwards Tobias Rieder, Brendan Shinnimin and defenseman Brandon Gormley.

"When you take a hard look at where you're at relative to the competition and when you take a look at what's happening around the league, I think that's where we need to take this team," GM Don Maloney said.

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