Sh*t.
Was busy, last i checked we were up 3-1, WTF happened was Joey off tonight or did the D get their bad habit of standing around and spectating? Both?
I only caught the last 15 minutes or so, but they looked disjointed. Like they were gaining possession regularly and kept the Blues from looking dangerous (other than maybe one or two sequences in the final couple minutes), but would pass the puck into each others skates, struggle to keep it on their sticks, and just sort of fling it on net for low danger chances. Lots of shots but none of them seemed like legitimate chances. I can honestly only think of one Kraken shot in the Blues zone during that stretch where I thought “solid save by Binnington”
I was stuck with the Blues feed as a stream, unfortunately. Listening to them insist Parayko crosschecking Schwartz to the ice was a “good clean hockey play” while showing it isolated/zoomed in slow motion was particularly painful.
And that OT is Exhibit A for why I dislike the current OT format. Watching Blues players under zero pressure cycle the puck back out of the Kraken zone into neutral ice is just tedious. It’s boring that it’s just “manufacture an odd man rush or net front scramble, else endlessly cycle in your own zone” anymore.