Yikes! That was rough. I'll give them a pass, because they had to go 36 days without practice until Monday. And missing 5 regulars (I am assuming Cade Webber will be in the regular line-up).
- Wise is going to play himself out of the lineup if he keeps taking bad penalties. His first one (unsportsmanlike) put us down two men for two minutes, when the game was close (maybe tied?) his second was just an unnecessary high hit, but he needs to do more to contribute (I know he had an assist).
- I really liked Jarman's game. He impressed me more than the Union transfer.
- Speaking of transfers, our new Max (Kaufman) > our old Max (Willman). He made some nice plays and should be in the lineup. Had an assist on the Tuch goal, got at least one other nice SOG.
- I also really like what I see with Peterson - he has the size of Quercia and DeBoer but much quicker and more skill.
- Commesso decided to take the Michel Larocque path by giving up a lot of goals in his first game
. In all seriousness, he gave up a couple bad ones (the bank job from the goal line, the turnaround by Berard), but he made some great saves, and I am confident he will be the starter.
- Great Zegras-like turnaround pass from Farrance on the Tuch goal. Picking up where he left off with two points. And he sat seemingly the last 10 minutes - good move by coach once the game got out of hand.
- Also great to see Driscoll get a goal. Have to think he isn't going to play regularly, so nice to see him have a memorable moment.
- Nice to see O'Brien get one against his former team (I predicted it and won the raffle on twitter
).
- The only thing that may have been worse than our play was the production - went to commercial at the wrong times, sound cutting in and out, the camera work was terrible (I know WBA is tight quarters, but they never used to have trouble following the puck when we used to play there), replays were usually non-existent, sometimes showed the wrong play. I know there are like three games a night, so I think we had the JV crew.
- And I love Bernie, but he was missing a lot of what was happening on the ice. Completely missed the first Power Play until we were 15 seconds into it, they both missed the embellishment call on Fensore that created a match, missed the fact that the first PC goal was a rebound put in, not a squeaker past Commesso, etc.
- I think we get Mastro back tomorrow (and one other - Bernie was starting to talk about it when the sound cut out, so no idea who else might be back). Hopefully we get a better result.
