Yeah but I understand the frustration especially if you were at the game.
This is definitely the low point of the season for me. After getting caved up in Toronto (where we barely limped to the final buzzer to get a point and where their top line had us pinned in all night) . . . This? Our first look at the Flyers and we can’t muster 20 shots on goal or handle their pressure on the puck? They were the better team in this game and we did not deserve to win this game. Nor did we deserve even the point in Toronto if I am being honest with what I’ve been seeing.
There are excuses but I can’t escape that we haven’t been good for weeks and got outplayed today by a divisional opponent on the wrong end of the bubble. And in a game we needed.
Forget results. We need to start playing even competitive hockey. We’ve been getting points the last ten days only because Markstrom has been standing on his head. We are generating nothing. The puck possession is horrendous. We’re pinned in our end repeatedly. We get leads in the opening period then try unsuccessfully to cling to them and suddenly look like the Devils of years past.
It might be a good thing that we are right back at it again tomorrow but then again it might even get worse if Ottawa caves us in. Maybe we can cling to our division top 3 playoff spot, get to the 4 Nations Bullshit Break and regroup then?
I can only wonder what it must be like in the locker room. This is the time not to panic I suppose, it’s a long season with ups and downs . . . But this is definitely a downer today in the bleak midwinter.