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Maybe it's just me being extra sensitive this morning but I listened to some of the post game interviews and Larsson's interview just really pissed me off. It was all we did this, we did that, we have to make better reads, we, we, we. Does the whole team need to be better? Yes but look in the freaking mirror buddy and take some responsibility for your own play.

You are a defensive dman. You aren't a burner skating wise, you aren't a good puck mover, you aren't an offensive dman though he did score a rare goal. His game is defense, keeping good position and being a pain to play against. If he doesn't do that, he doesn't give you anything positive. He was lousy. So own it for a change. You were on for 3 goals against and looked clueless. The first goal against was what you'd expect to see a junior player in a preseason game do. He's 28 yrs old, been in the league for over 10 yrs, has over 500 games of experience. You had the winger doing his job, tying up the man against the boards at the blueline. He's neutralized. He didn't have to do ANYTHING but stay in his position and wait for the puck to come loose. Yet your decision as a 10 yr NHL vet defensive dman is to skate across the ice and go for the hit!!! The Canuck didn't even have to make an amazing pass, all he had to do was wildly fling the puck into an area and Horvat who was WAY behind on the play could just skate up and have a breakaway from damn near the blueline.



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