- May 1, 2011
- 130,385
- 57,843
Even though it seemed because of so many issues earlier in the game, this loss mostly comes down to wretched and absolutely rubbish special teams. There is not a strong enough adjective to describe just how poor the penalty killing and power play were tonight.
It's one thing to just piss away all your power play's and not score on them, but allowing a goal against on the power is the coup de grace. You can't afford to give up a goal on your PP like that, especially when you're having your own problems not allowing goals on the other teams power play and scoring goals on the power play yourself. That shorthanded goal sunk any chance of a comeback. And it wasn't even like a one off mistake, as I remember at least one odd man rush on that same power play just seconds before. The power play literally had nothing going tonight, it's no wonder it only took about 30 seconds of the net empty for them to score an empty net goal. Any man advantage or disadvantage situation tonight was terrible.
It's one thing to just piss away all your power play's and not score on them, but allowing a goal against on the power is the coup de grace. You can't afford to give up a goal on your PP like that, especially when you're having your own problems not allowing goals on the other teams power play and scoring goals on the power play yourself. That shorthanded goal sunk any chance of a comeback. And it wasn't even like a one off mistake, as I remember at least one odd man rush on that same power play just seconds before. The power play literally had nothing going tonight, it's no wonder it only took about 30 seconds of the net empty for them to score an empty net goal. Any man advantage or disadvantage situation tonight was terrible.