This continues to baffle me. Riley Nash is like, borderline Selke. Why is he not out there defending leads?
I just don't get it, man. Someone make it make sense.
I actually agree and wonder why Copp Lowry Nash don't get that assignment, but IMO the reason is that PoMo wants to keep his big guns happy and he keeps KFC Scheif and Wheeler happy by letting them pad their stats with empty net goals/points. The goalie gets pulled, the top line comes out to try to pot the empty netter and put the game out of reach. It's clockwork and it works a lot of the time.
In some ways as the opposing coach it is what you don't want to see. If your team loses possession of the puck it is game over.
It worked the first time, where we got the empty net goal and it was game over, but then with the long delay, that goal gets called back and everyone is fresh so we go back to the same thing that just worked. Top line comes out to pot another empty netter but with the string of fluky bounces we don't ever control the puck and it's 5 - 5 heading to overtime. I don't really fault any of the forwards there but it really would have helped to win the faceoff.
This game was hard to watch at the end but it's not like we were making bad plays all over the ice and giving up multiple grade A chances. It was just bad luck, bad calls and bad bounces all piling up combined with a lack of attention to detail on KFCs part that negated the ENG.
We get a penalty called in OT so when its a 2 on 1 rush opportunity you have to try to capitalize there and end the game because we're killing the rest of the OT. Then Fiala slew foots Stanley in the corner after he doesn't score and the ref swallows his whistle as Fiala joins the rush back the other way and picks up a point on the OT winner by holding the middle of the ice. If you could challenge for missed penalties on scoring plays we could have had that OT goal overturned but that isn't really a thing.
Wish you would have photoshopped Maurice outside that door.
