from Ansar Khan of Mlive,
Frustration is the best way to describe their feelings following a 5-2 loss to the Edmonton Oilers at Little Caesars Arena in their first game after an eight-day break.
“We try to judge ourselves on performance and for the most part, as frustrating as the score is, there were a lot of positives,” coach Derek Lalonde said. “I felt through the first 25 minutes we were the better team, and you could just feel it building and then we gave up two easy goals and you find yourself down.”...
“Campbell played well, but the pucks laying around him, there were a lot, and we just didn’t get a stick on them,” Dylan Larkin said. “We weren’t hard enough.”
“I thought we played with emotion,” Larkin said. “The crowd was into it. It was difficult to play a team like that. We responded. We were right there but just not enough. It is frustrating that we can’t find traction, but there’s still a little bit of time for us.”
from Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press,
Lalonde acknowledges they dont have any natural goal scorers, and they arent built for scrumming as Edmonton is. Hope we build some kind of identity. Sometime.
Fire Blashill they said...
-Sincerely,
Derek Glass-Half-Full Lalonde
I am beyond tired of the narrative after every game. "Analytics say we should have won." "We were the better team but it didn't show on the scoresheet." etc etc etc. It's not pee-wee, maybe we can be honest with these adult professionals and recognize that even when we play well, we're not playing better than our opponent, hence why we get the "L".
The standings don't give a crap about analytics or who played better. It's all about which team gets the "W".
Can someone tell our NHL head coach that a NHL hockey game is 60 minutes. Stevie probably should've confirmed he knew that in the interview process.
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