I know everyone wants to pile on Virtanen, and the one he took to negate a 5 on 3 was terrible judgment, but the two penalties they called on him in the third were not penalties. Same with the Marner penalty. The refereeing was not good. The goaltending wasn't either. The puck luck was terrible - a puck over the glass at the far end? Yikes. The coaching has been mentioned.
A lot of things went wrong there. It's not on one guy. And the team looked fantastic in the first period. In the third, where'd the forecheck go?
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