Both Glencross and Gleason played that poorly. Gleason should have stepped up and forced the Ranger to dump it in, but true to our freaking idiotic strategy he backed way off. Glencross, feeling that his bad pass wasn't enough, did nothing. Did not cut off a passing lane, did not hit him, did zilch.
Trotz has them scared to death to challenge Rags forwards at the blue line. It's insane how easily they are entering our zone. You watch the Rags as we approach their blue line they have one guy angling our puck carrier toward another guy, forcing us to dump it in. Of course if we had an ounce of creativity there are ways around that, but we don't. We, however, allow them straight lines into our zone. The difference on the GWG is that the other 2 Caps forwards failed to back check and we paid the price.
I'm not as enamored by Trotz' style as some, but let's see if he's worth the praise by adjusting accordingly. Personally I would not have taken the previous wins as proof that our strategy is working because I thought the Rangers had an exorbitant amount of B chances and figured some would eventually start to go in. But whatever, let's see if a loss leads to adjustments.