Love the way Jones has played recently. You can tell he's pissed
Holy crap, look at his guns! It's like he burnt away his baby fat into pure muscle! In previous year pictures, he just looked as though he was a big body, kinda like Nick Ritchie. Max has been putting in some serious gym time. I do like he's beginning to accept his role as that speedy power forward to cause disruptions. He really does need to be in front of the net more to get more dirty goal chances.
What Max says in the post game interview is the same thing many of us have cited throughout the season - lack of consistency. In Backes' last post game interview, he also denoted how we play up or down to the competition, denoting how we're forced to play better against VGK, but then let up against Minny. Taking both of these post game interviews together and we see why we stop playing after getting big leads in the past two games. Within a game, we have three separate games: 1st period game, 2nd period game, and 3rd period game. We simply aren't putting up enough effort for all 60 minutes or more.
It feels as though the team as a whole doesn't believe it's talented enough to win or possibly dominate games. Who would have thought that Ducks can go up 3-0 in back to back games? Not I. Who would have thought the Ducks would go to blow both games? Not I.
This loss was more disappointing because we lost in a similar fashion two nights ago to the same team. So much so that I totally forgot we earned a point in this loss. "Yay for a point!"... I guess.