Really a terrible performance but a 6-1 PP advantage and 3 PP goals bailed us out. Montreal didn’t even play well and Price had his worst game against us since he trashed the visitors dressing room over a decade ago.
- PP was never going to stay as bad as it looked in the first couple games. Boeser, Miller, Horvat all with very good games. Pettersson had some moments although still struggling.
- Motte was excellent and carried his line which did better today.
- everything about the blueline and everything about team defense aside from Nate Schmidt is embarrassing. No system, no personnel, no effort. Huge problems and this team will struggle badly to win games if they don’t figure out some solutions.
- Chatfield lost concentration for one moment and was burned on the 3-3 goal but otherwise held up ok and did better for himself than most of the regulars.
- Hughes bled goals all of last year but people simply didn’t want to hear about it when I tried explaining it. Was a -22 in 49 games where he played over 20 minutes, despite having Tanev as a security blanket and despite teams not preparing for him. This year, there is no Tanev, no sheltering, no rookie glow, higher expectations, and teams keying on him and the results are predictable. He isn’t good enough yet at ES for the role he’s playing.
