pathetic effort
Di Pietro prevented that from being a 7-1 game
Why these guys decide to play dead at home is beyond me. The last time they stunk up the ice was also at home.
The only loss in the previous 7 games before tonight was the horrendous performance they put forth vs Laval at home on 2/5. You panned that one pretty good.
Now they do it again. A lackluster performance if I've ever seen one. However, it was done the way teams consistently beat the Comets. They dogged them every inch of the ice. Rafferty, Lind, Jasek, Stevens, Bailey, Sautner, and Hamilton to mention the obvious ones were unable to do anything positive under that pressure and turned over pucks like it was a carnival game of 3 turnovers for a buck. Boucher, Camper, and Goldobin got chances, but couldn't actually muster more than a couple serious threats. All 6 members of the D-corps found themselves running around in their own zone and just throwing pucks every which way and that usually wasn't to one of their own. The forwards method of dealing with Crunch players flying up the ice was to wave a stick at them with the their backs turned as the guy just blew by them on the opposite side of their stick sweep. Guys beat 2,3 , and even more Comets all by themselves in the Comets zone before shooting or passing to someone else who was unattended.
As you say, it was the Mikey show once again. All of this and he only gave up 2 goals. Witkowski, not for a minute known as a finesse hockey player, went from the neutral zone with the puck Lind just passed right to him, and beat yet a couple more Comets on his way to the goal mouth.
Yan's goal was a pathetic attempt by Eliot to get rid of a puck under pressure near the corner to Petgrave skating away from him behind the net only to have the pass intercepted by Sompi who jumped in between the 2 and tried a wrap around that ended up being a platter pass to Yan cruising through the crease. None of Stevens, Perron, nor Stevenson picked up the man cutting through the crease, normally the center's job when the D are both absent. We have seen Camper execute that role often, but I don't recall a lot of that type of D from any other center.