Do people not understand that JR is a brash GM? The dude wheels and deals, and then does so some more if what he just tried doesn’t work. If you haven’t keyed into that yet or haven’t comes to grips with it, I don’t know what to tell you. That’s who he is for better or worse, and do I need to clarify the “better” part? The Brassard thing didn’t work even though it should have. That’s when we stopped pushing all the right buttons personnel wise. Not to mention I’ve been trying to tell people that we’re not a premier team at this stage and no one seems to want to face it. That doesn’t mean I thought they’d lose this series (which they’re still far from), but get with reality ffs.
Anyways, the biggest problems in this series are one save per game from Lehner that were beyond clutch, Sid and Jake being surprisingly quiet, a penalty we absolutely needed to kill and didn’t tonight, and the reality that athletes age and do not perform the same way throughout their entire career. Of course when you’ve worked yourself up into a Cup frenzy in a year like this, you’re bound to be shocked when down 0-2 to a pretty decent team that plays you tough. We’re a very good team most nights, which isn’t in the same stratosphere as being a contender.
