A good coach should know how to match lines at home and on the road. Just because we played on the road doesn't excuse Gulutzan for not doing his job. Awful D pairing was another one that should have been so painfully obvious, I don't know why he thought it was a good idea to have a slow defenseman on each pairing. I didn't have much of a problem with Wideman, thought he was decent but he's strictly a 3rd pairing/PP specialist now.
Elliot channeled his inner Hiller, hopefully it was just to remind us what we went through last year and starting game 2 he will show us what he is truly capable of.
Ferland needs to be the agitator that we thought he would be watching him in the playoffs against Vancouver. I know he can't do that every game but I don't know if he needed more of a reason to crush the Oilers in their new barn on opening night.
Grossman. Puke.
All in all, I'm waiting to see what game the team responds with and what type of game Gulutzan coaches on Friday. Hopefully this awful dmen experiment ends.
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