Booth looked good because he actually took it to the middle, and that created opportunities. All the fluky goals still count, so that doesn't really bother me. Good things happen in hockey when you are willing to get your nose dirty. Hope he keeps it up.
Kassian and Edler were just serving it up to the other team. Edler's reads are so slow. Despite the drop pass in the neutral zone, we scored on the PP play where he was least involved.
The Canucks also did a lot better job ramping up the forecheck and crashing the net in this game, which IMO is why we saw an offensive outburst.
The team had started to float in the last stretch of games. Blindly dumping it in without speed, skating to their position on the forecheck but not engaging, the third forward being soft on his side once it looks like the play has been funnelled in the right way, third forward not containing the free winger once the two D have conceded the blueline ... these and a whole host of little things the team has very subtly been careless about in our losing streak.
With a true effort in the last two periods tonight you see what we can do when the whole team isn't cutting corners. I only caught the 1st on the radio so I can't comment on that.
