Last nights game was one of those occasions when factors worked in our favour (back up goalie who hadn't played in 26 games, 2nd night of B2B for the opposition and no Weber) and you have to take advantage, which we did and secured the two points.
4th line looked awesome all night long, I really liked the play of Shore and couldn't believe that his TOI was so low, he seemed to be out there a lot, maybe it was just every time they were out there they made something happen.
Nice of Mason Raymond to show up for a game. He really seemed to be trying to use his speed to get past defenders and try to drive for the net, rather thank making the zone and peeling back. He really needs to keep that up down the stretch.
Boy do we struggle to clear the zone at times. There were numersous occasions where we just struggled to even flip the pack out of the zone past their D, we need to be better at that.
Slightly off topic but there was one occasion last night when Hrudey was praising Hartley for standing by his younger players and how he showed faith in them, kept throwing them out there even if they made a mistake, so that they didn't sit on the bench worrying about making another mistake and getting benched etc. I just thought that was rather ironic considering the treatment that Beartschi seemed to get earlier in the season, he was getting benched pretty quick after any mistake. I guess him and Hartley just didn't see eye to eye on his play.
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