Honestly, Kapanen had a great game I thought. If you're coming to this PGT to dump on him, save yourself the trouble and don't embarrass yourself. He was all over the nice and had plenty of nice chances. Don't submit to group echo chambers.
I think he is playing extremely dumb hockey and is the major reason line 2 has few if any extended possessions in the offensive zone. Shoots from low percentage areas when there’s no traffic. Dumps it into areas no one can get to, forechecks without causing turnovers, weak on the boards in his own zone.
Lots of quick skating and willingness to hustle. Just no solidity or end product to it.
Thought we had something with him.
Ultimately, we’ve scored… what… one or two ES goals this four game home stand where we could have really moved away from Caps and Rangers. There’s more wrong than Kapanen, obviously. We need the break.
Gotta give credit to Samsonov also though. He made lots of quality stops because Sid’s line was buzzing. We were much the better hockey team in this one. Annoying loss.
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