I was at the game and just got back. Not many positives tonight since the team was pretty much in passenger mode for some reason. Ortio had an off night, although facing a game's worth of shots in just under 30 minutes didn't help. It felt like Kulak was the only player with some energy made a couple good stretch passes and had a couple rushes where he was able to skate the puck out of the zone. O'brien seemed to wake up in the 3rd and looked like one angry S.O.B, not only hitting but had some couple rushes in the offensive zone that surprised me.
Poirier's goal looked slick, had also a bit of an edge to his game after getting some ice time late in the third.
Don't think I've ever seen Ward that upset where he was exchanging words with the opposing coach.
Thought the refs were horrible tonight. Not the reason the Heat loss but they seemed to conveniently missing infractions against Grand Rapids. Thought some of the calls on the Heat were weak as well. Olson's crosscheck was a result of a guy falling. Not sure how Poirier got called for charging when he was right beside the guy he hit. Just looked at the scoresheet apparently they gave Evans an extra 2 minutes at the 20 minute mark to make the it seem more balanced.
I really hope they come back in the series, it would suck for their last game to be one where they got slaughtered.
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