Well if this was a dog race the announcer would say "#? pulled a muscle" at the start of the race.
They had turkey for xmas and decided to give the fans one too.
Wow, flat is a compliment. You could count the effective players on one hand.
That was a dry game, but that will be playoff hockey only with more hitting.
Kuzmenko looked pretty good out there, in fact he looked like one of the better players.
Boeser looked like a guy skating between the face off dots, just kind of floating around in the middle for most of the game.
But these will happen, in the recent past these types of games signalled a coming slump.
Allvin has to be saying to himself, "self, do I invest more of the future into this group?" "Are they worth the chance?"
Or is he in so deep he has to make changes at all costs for this 2 year window? The team will make the playoffs barring Edmonton surging up to third in the division, then it is/might be a coin toss for a WC spot.
That is a couple of games now where Tocchet can't be happy with the overall effort. After all the coach gets the team ready to play, prepared. But in his favour is that he has never crowed about this group being where it needs to be, but that could be just him getting ready to protect himself because most coaches would never say the team is doing great or is ready for the show this early.