Meh. What are you gonna do? We played well. Andersen had a solid game, but we didn't exactly make it hard for him. There was plenty of open net to shoot at, we were just missing it on our better chances. That's how it goes.
I'm not in fire Cooper mode, but unlike some I thought this was partially a coaching loss. Babcock straight-up dissected our tendencies (gig's probably up on the drop-pass zone entries) and he did a really good job of playing his team's strengths versus our weaknesses. Hats off to him for that, but I'd imagine another game on Saturday would look pretty different. Presumably we wouldn't get caught on the counter so often, and we be a little better about shutting down/ picking off their stretch passes. Furthermore, our lineup was a head-scratcher, and that's on Coop. I love Cally, but he had no business being out there tonight.
Vasy was pretty good, but Andersen was a smidge better. Fortunately for us that probably isn't going to happen four nights out of seven. If we'd gotten one more past Andersen I think the flood gates would have opened. My take on him has always been that he's very good right up until he isn't. Three's the magic number, we just couldn't pry him open tonight.