For the 1st time in years I turned off a playoff hockey game after the 1st period. Usually as we all know even a 4 goal lead can easily become a 1 goal lead in a matter of 5 minutes but with the way the preds are playing I knew without a shadow of a doubt that there was no way they were gonna come back. They can't even do the little things like pass it tape to tape with a guy 10 feet from each other. No disciple what so ever. Yea some of the calls were tic tac calls but you should know that by now. And don't get me started with the power play. Its completely laughable. Dump clear dump clear dump pass pass shoot from the point block or wide of the net clear. No disrespect to lavy because he's accomplished a lot since being here but if you can't get your team up and ready to play good hockey in a game 4 game that you take a stronghold of a series then maybe your the problem.
I lasted until half way through the 2nd. You could tell they weren't even going to "send a message for next game" or anything. No compete at all.
In addition to the dump clear dump clear repeat pattern I'll also mention how often it seems they go offside - or nearly go offside and somebody has to stretch themselves or perform some other contortion to narrowly avoid the offside which then wrecks the play just as much. They are just massively out of synch right now.
And getting outhit by such a huge margin too. Dallas isn't an especially huge or intimidating team. A bit bigger than us maybe, but no excuse for them to have such a big edge on that side of things either.
I don't think it's just doom and gloom after last night's game - from the whole 4 game sample I would say it's clear that no switch was flipped. The team is not ready for these playoffs. And really that's something that extends back to the same time last year, they just haven't been ready to play this calibre of hockey for over a year now.