Darling wasn't great, but he wasn't entirely to blame.
The entire team was sloppy top to bottom. Seemed like they were tired of the '5v5 goals' narrative and put all their focus on the offensive side, left a lot to be desired away from the puck.
I was at the game and he just was not tracking the puck well. While we lost I actually think there were some positives from tonight.
Good:
- TT was more engaged and I thought he played well with Toews/Garbutt
- AA/AP played well and hard
- Our D was fine minus Svedberg
- Toews was Toews
- Hartman was physical and I thought he was fine
- Kero played fine (might be a 3rd line solution)
- Garbutt got his chances and used his speed well
Bad:
- Hossa got hurt
- Kruger sucked ass again
- Desj played hard but he has the fumbles and he needs to get back to his game
- Svedberg sucked. He is weak and deserved to be benched.
- Kane needs to get going again (was the cause of 1 if not 2 goals)