End of 2 and we are down 2-0. I missed the first period entirely-if it was anything like the second period-we deserve to be down. This is not the effort we saw yesterday. We have 20 minutes to show if we want to continue this season. I dont know if we have enough offense to do it.
very lazy play tonight, the penalties are indicative of that....
The refs are buying every frigging dive Brown goes for. It's ridiculous. The "slash" drew their attention because the Brown skater bent his knees and leapt forward. Last I checked slashes don't launch you forward. Meanwhile Pirri gets hammered from behind into the boards (complete with neck snapping back against the glass) and no call. Absolutely head-scratching.
You can't even start to blame the refs for tonight's lack of effort.
Interested - I'm not sure, they had a good start to the period and then Malchuk's line took a shift off [around the 12 minute mark] and the momentum shifted. I think I would have done the same thing if I was coaching.