Great effort , and I disagree Stamkos played well as did the whole team. Holtby just played better than Bishop not to say Bish played bad.
Have to disagree dude. Kucherov, Callahan, Brown, Filppula, and even Killorn kept attacking the zone kept pushing and shooting, where as Stamkos was not noticable and did not have that many good scoring chances and did not look dangerous. JT Brown has looked more dangerous than him in the last week or so. He had Kucherov to skate with who has been one of our best forwards and he still could not generate enough offense. The assist on the PP, was a routine pass to the point, it was Stralman who made the heads up pass to get it to Kucherov. It was not like he fought off someone to gain control of the puck on the boards, it was a loose puck he picked up and easily sailed it to Stralman.
All we needed was one dominating shift from Stamkos, and maybe we walk out of this game with a point. Kucherov, Callahan, Brown, and Flip put the team on their shoulders against Ottawa, all 4 of them looked great again in this game, shutting down Ovi, bringing the offense, but they cannot do it every night, which is why we need a guy like Stamkos to come through.
This was a game Stamkos could of took control, the game was so winnable, we were dominating, but 1 SOG from a guy looking to make over 12 million is acceptable? Give me a break. I know some players have not been scoring like they should but they are doing everything else they can to win, and the efforts are there.