My thoughts are that they approached the game all wrong (whether it was by Moe's design or not). They tried to slow play the Hawks all game, get the puck slowly regroup and dump and chase... gain the zone then slowly curl and wait... rinse and repeat and they got burnt for it. Did our coaching staff not advance scout against the Hawks? There was a game two days ago that showed how you play that team. You come at them hard through the NZ with speed, you play direct fast hockey and go to the net hard. There was none of that in our game tonight, we completely played into their hands, they are a veteran enough team to maintain discipline and stay positionaly sound. All in all a terrible effort right from the planning to terrible execution by the players.
As for players, only Morrissey, Ehelers and to lesser extents Connor and Trouba showed up.
I don't like calling a young player out if that is what Moe did, when it was nearly the entire team.
I would like to see the Trouba experiment on the PP number 1 end and get JoMo there, he's earned the right.