The game was pretty much even up, and getting a point here is fine. A week off when the team was putting up Ws was not a good thing, but nothing can be done about that.
I was really happy to see Ryan back up on the first line. That line is just dynamite when they are together.
Aside from the one gaff that led to a goal I thought EK65 had a great game. He really controlled the play, and he got a lot of pucks to the net. The one thing I noticed about him that seems to be getting worse as time goes on is that he misses the net a lot when he is in space and heading to the goalie. He tries to pick corners, but if he doesn't hit them very often it ends up killing plays.
I though Lehner was ok. The rebound control is still a major weakness, but at least he recovered well.
I was amazed at how slow Wiercioch looked tonight. I always knew that he footspeed was below average, but at time he really looked like he was skating in mud. He was fine in general, but the lack of speed was more noticeable than usual to me.
I'm loving Borocop's game. He is never going to be a Corsi superstar, but if he can lay on the body and avoid taking tons of penalties while doing it he can actually be an effective bottom pairing player.
I don't blame Legwand one bit for the OT goal. We were killing the last half of a 4 on 3 PP at the time, and those situations are lethal. If he has the chance to kill a few extra seconds by ragging the puck and moving it back to our D as the other team changes then I expect him to take it. The fact that it did not work out does not mean it was a bad decision.
