I absolutely HATED the way AV handled the matchups. He lost this game badly by playing certain players at certain times. Stewart should not be playing against a speed team. AT ALL. WTF kind of decision is that. He literally stared as he watched mackinnon skate around him and because he stood pat, kase had to come all the way around to try to stop him.
Hagg...holy crap was he awful. One play the puck is going back to our end and he casually takes a look behind him (while casually skating because he is an idiot), see's calvert closing in and he DOES NOTHING. He literally waits for calvert to make contact with, falls, and loses the puck. Was also hilarious to watch mackinnon stop and turn so many times on braun lol. Poor braun, he could've broken his ankles so many times hahahaha
Team was flygin in the 2nd period and Hayes with a terrible stick position on rantanen. Idk why he goes on the outside instead of inside rantanen. I thought he had great defensive awareness. Even if he wasn't able to get a stick on him, you hook the 2nd best player on the Avs and live with a pk. That second goal was a back breaker.
I thought we played well outside the 1st and certain parts of the 3rd. Was not a fan of how AV played the lines though. If you are going to have your 4th line out there, WHY is hagg out there with them? I understand he wanted to free up couts against Mack but man. I saw numerous shifts where stewart or hagg was out there against mackinnon or rantanen. Still liked our compete. Losing lindblom, myers, raffl, AND tk is huge for our team. All 4 of those guys are playing amazing hockey right now.
