We lost the special teams game against Washington.
PP
Anaheim: 0/5
Washington: 2/6
Non-PP Scoring
Anaheim: 4 goals
Washington: 3 goals
Anaheim has been piling up penalties all season long as they have the most TSH opportunities in the league, which I shared on
page 3 of this GDT before the game started. They added eight more last night. We had five penalties in the 3rd period, but only 4 TSH. Those 3rd period penalties will kill most chances for a comeback.
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(Courtesy of
ESPN Gamecast.)
TBF, that canceling penalties between Gudas and McMichael, there should have been an extra penalty for too many men on the ice at the very least as there where three caps on one duck while four caps were still playing the game.
Here's a tidbit by Derek Lee on
his article about last night's debacle:
“You can’t expect to win games––I don’t care if it’s 2-1 or 5-4––taking the number of penalties we take at the time of the game that we take them. It’s unacceptable, quite frankly. I don’t know what the solution is but they’ve got to figure it out on their own. Until we stop doing that, we don’t have a chance at winning games. You just can’t keep taking hooking and holding penalties.”
“At the end of the day, we can’t keep taking penalties,” said Cronin. “We took four penalties in the third period. That’s absurd. Two nights ago (in Vancouver), we take one when we’re pressing at the end of the game. Most of them are these lazy penalties where guys’ sticks are right up into (the opposing player’s) hands and they’re easy to call. I told them (after the game tonight): ‘I don’t know what else to say to you, we keep doing it, it’s called insanity’.”
No solution to the penalty taking problem is something I didn't expect to hear.
