Were we as bad as the score indicates? And are we really looking at both Rosen and Santini being in the lineup for game 3?
I'm the board master pessimist and I expected a loss....
BUT I'm
happy we split the away games in Minny.
We started well and had sustained pressure. That game would have been different if we capitalized in the first few minutes for all our hard work. The Wild first goal was just bad luck. Wild goals #2 and #3 were due to one good call and one bad call. Wild goal #4 was on Tank.
The boys battled back and got it to 4-2 and were close to making it 4-3 with about 8 minutes left. We started to gamble and eventually pulled the goalie too soon and we got burned with 2 more Wild goals. I thought our pressure in the 3rd was good, but we had to gamble too much to close the gap and we lost.
I listened to 101.1 ESPN this AM and I took great exception to Michelle Smalls saying we get outplayed (stick to baseball, Michelle). IMO it was a mixture of bad luck, dumb and bad penalties, and some sloppy play. Otherwise, I was happy with our 5 on 5 play. Our D corps is also in bad injury shape.
That last point has me worried about this series longer term. We really need two of the three vets (Scandella, Leddy, Bort) to play in games 3 and 4 at home or we are in trouble. Miko is a damn trainwreck and Rosen doesn't provide the muscle that Scandella and Bort bring to the game.