You can't say that about Gillies...(sarcasm)
1. Those goals were on very poor defensive play. Gillies (and actually even Ellis on the 5th goal) should hire a divorce lawyer and sue the defense for divorce on the grounds of abandonment.
2. Someone joked the defense must have been watching the Patriots early defense in their game
3 you didn't know you would miss Mark Adams so much. All 3 of Browns even strength goals, well one was with the delayed penalty came with Walman and Monk on the ice. Walman has not looked any where as good since Adams was out. Certainly not pointing the finger at Monk, but he is what he is, a 7th defenseman and clearly his game does not mesh well with what Walman does best.
4. You know you are in trouble when the Acciari line is on the ice for the 2 true even strength goals, but it does show the total breakdown of the defense.
5. Divver made a comment that Brown's 4th line played well all weekend, though I believe they had no points, but it does kind of show up how poor our 4th line is.
6. I fully realize unless you believe Cromwell can give you solid minutes a major culprit in this game was Demopoulous. 2 bad penalties, one leading to 2 goals, extra attacker and then the penalty. Then just as Ellis gets to the bench he takes an offensive zone interference call. He was also on the ice for that extra attacker goal
7. If you have no wind in your sails to begin with, losing that 1st goal was huge. It was clearly never covered, just plain bad work by the ref to not follow it, and bad luck for PC in that the shooter was just lifting it as the whistle blew, if he had gotten it up in the air a split second faster the ref might have found it.
8. Need we discuss the power play and their inability to finish
I think Ellis can be a decent goalie and has shown to be a good backup but please, to think the Friars would be better without Gillies playing as much as he has is wishful thinking.