I mean, they couldn’t win them all of course. But between the bad bounces and the glaring mistakes proving costly, an extremely frustrating loss.
And, by my eye, the third line got hemmed quite a bit more than they had, and the power play was a quite a bit less dangerous than it had been, without a certain someone who just got unwisely sent to the minors. But we’ll get to that.
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- The loss, due in part to some unfortunate bounces going the other way, shows how hard it is to maintain a streak in the NHL.