Max Domi to blame for this loss. Need to use his stick for playing hockey going forward.
The team scored 1 goal, putting this on Domi is lazy.
You can blame the refs, Domi, Samsonov whoever, it's all BS. When your top 6 combines for zero goals, your team scores 1 goal total, none of the excuses are valid. Even if Samsonov played well, and say he allowed only 2 goals, you still lose. The PK was 60%, the PP was 0%. Generating chances isn't enough, you need to convert.
I'm not upset at the effort from the top line at all, even the bottom 6 played hard, couple bad plays but they competed. Marner was very bad and overall our 11M+ forwards need to be better than their goalie. At some point in their careers, our forwards have to outplay the opposing goalie. It's a lazy excuse.
Matthews played very well but he had 3 or 4 prime scoring chances and nothing to show for it, that can't happen. Jarnkrok had that partial break, there was some other deflections and plays in the crease. Gotta bury them, at the end of the day games are won by who scores more goals, not who expected to score more goals.
The positive ? Nylander may be back and after failing to convert on that many chances, the likely direction for this team to trend is up.
Great game effort wise, full points to Boston, they deserved the W. Their goalie did his job and the forwards and special teams did their jobs. Even if we remove all of their powerplays and powerplay goals, it's a 3-1 game. Need more scoring, you're not winning a playoff game scoring only 1 goal.
