Ok I have calmed down a little bit, that game really pissed me off because it reminded me so much of last year. The Blues played down to their opponents. I got the sense that they thought, "oh we don't have to play hard, we can out skill them," and for large chunks of the game that was true. That is why it seemed like the Blues were in control. I reality they were way to casual the whole game. Only the third line were working for the win.
Individual performance wise.
Perunovich's last game as a Blue please. Trade him, send him down, jettison him out of the moving plane, I honestly don't care. He needs to never have the bluenote on his chest again.
Schenn' worst game as he was the most prevalent case of "playing casual." You can't be that weak on pucks and do that many driveby's as the captain and expect the team to pull you up. Unacceptable
Binnington had a bad game imo. I feel like only two of those goals were unstoppable. Needed more from him.
The whole defense unit wasn't strong and that includes Broberg and Faulk. They just were not locked in tonight.
On the positive side of things.
Parayko was moving well and led the attack numerous times tonight. While his defensive game left a lot to be desired I liked his authoritative nature with the puck tonight.
Holloway, Joseph and Bolduc played well, not perfect but by far our best line. That being said I am almost to the point that we need to send Bolduc down. He just isn't producing and maybe he needs a restart. I love Joseph's game, so far I haven't seen a game where the dial was set at anything below a 9.
Kyrou, Buch and Tex has a strong effort tonight but just a mess on execution. Zero cohesion.
Lastly I will say that games like this will be the ones we look at when we are sitting ~5 points out of the playoffs at the end of the year saying, "if we only beat that bottom feeder we could have made it in." As a likely wildcard bubble team we have to beat teams like this. That is why this game is unacceptable in my book. After the Toronto game their was a clip of Bannister telling the boys they had tomorrow off. Well after this one I hope he told them to tie their skates tight for practice tomorrow cause the bags are coming out.