Another bad game where we were outplayed, and by an inferior team. A team 'we' should've beat. This loss wouldn't have hurt so much if it wasn't the third in a row, and if the team had looked to have learned from its mistakes in its past four plus games.
They're still off, taking periods off, playing from behind, chasing the game and playing sloppily. It's hard to watch and frustrating. These trends have been there all season, but have been most prominent this last week plus.
Kapanen needs to stay. He is better than Leivo, and brings a spark the team needs. Carrick also needs to get another shot. But this team should get another defender so long as it won't hurt them too much in terms of what the cost would be.
Can't blame McElhinney tonight. The team sucked in front of him for the second and first half of the third. Even then, they still had a hard time hitting the net (a trend through these games, with so many missed attempts) or sustain pressure. Larkin beat us. As did those awfully stupid penalties by Martin, Bozak.
And now we're 5th in the East, with everybody else having games in hand. The Bruins have five.
Blech
Komarov has been okay defensively, but he's not the same player he was when he first came here. I loved him then. Outside of his defense at times, he's not had a good year.
Martin has looked a lot better than last year AT TIMES, but has been mostly invisible lately.
Bozak's had an awful year.