from Helene Elliott of the LA Times,

Their 5-2 loss to the New York Islanders on Monday night at Barclays Center was a prime example of how fragile they've become. They scored the first goal but gave up three in the first period, two of them in the last minute. After cutting the Islanders' lead to 3-2 in the second period they soon fell back into a two-goal hole and from there played like a team that expects bad things to happen.

"It's hard to say otherwise," Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf said. "When you get that mental thing going where you give up a goal, you feel like you're not going to score another one. We're having a tough time scoring goals and that's an effect of not being able to get that swagger, that confidence that you need.

"But we've got to find a way to do it on a consistent basis because we've shown signs of it playing good hockey teams, where we've competed all night long and the next night for whatever reason, we can't show up to play."...

"I thought the first two goals were pretty soft, quite frankly," said Boudreau, who replaced Andersen with John Gibson to start the second period.

Boudreau, admittedly disheartened because he had hoped a 2-1 victory at New Jersey on Saturday might be the catalyst for a turnaround, said players on the bench talked about coming back Monday. But it turned out to be only talk, not action.

"I do think when goals go in on them, they know they haven't been scoring and it's tough to score," he said. "It makes it a little more difficult."

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