Adam wrote on Tue, 03 May 2022 10:32

Kr55 wrote on Tue, 03 May 2022 10:14 RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 03 May 2022 10:05 Kr55 wrote on Tue, 03 May 2022 09:45 jackass I just don't get it. WHY would you think that is a good idea EVER!! A dman isn't even supposed to make that play. He said he was trying to make a play and do to much. WHAT PLAY! Cocky bastid just made up his mind he was gonna go for it and nothing else mattered at that point. It's the Smith way. I just don't even know where he was trying to go with that. I don't think the home run pass was there. He actually had a pretty rough night on puck handling, at least two other giveaways too on plays that didn't cost us. One was relatively scary, one didn't really evolve in to anything but he had near options and instead rifled it around the boards to their defenceman. All that said, it's one game in a long series. We can turn this around pretty quickly still. Hopefully the team settles down a bit more, and then really comes out flying tomorrow. I think overall, despite some nerves and some breakdowns, we outplayed the Kings on the balance of last night. They just had very good goaltending and ours was mediocre at best.

If he keeps making those plays, it will be a short series. Can only hope he smartens up I guess.

This is also on Woody now to some degree. McLellan has been outsmarted every playoffs he's ever been in. We need some adjustments on how to handle the Kings top 2 lines and how to try to get the depth guys more involved. McLellan has group of smart 2-way players like he had in San Jose and they are good at counterpunching. Hopefully we can figure something out.

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