Well... yeah.
Shouldn't be too hard to find a silver lining when a rebuilding team has an off night, still ends up winning the game, and generated more high danger chances than the opponent.
But I know a lot of people are simultaneously expecting us to play offensively, have strong defensive structure, and draft top 5.
Yes. In law, we call that blowing and sucking at the same time.
This is an occasion where analytics are trumped by the eye test. A team that will probably be drafting before us had 22 shots in the first period, skated circles around us, was more dangerous killing penalties than our power play, missed the net on a ton of chances and would have beaten us by 5 goals but for Primeau’s heroics and a few provident goal posts.
Bottom line, if we play like this against Boston, Roy and Price in the nets at the same time, won’t save us.