My take-aways from the game although i'm sure it might be repetitive.
Positive:
1. Smith looked sharp tonight and over last year's injury.
2. The Tkachuk-Backlund-Czarnik line looked good when they made the switch.
3. The last 10 minutes of the game.
Negative:
1. The power play cost us the game, although I thought it was much better in the third when they were making their decisions a lot quicker.
2. Although they killed their penalties I thought they were too passive on it and not really pressuring the Canuck puck carrier.
3. We couldn't recover from mistakes and allowed it to snow ball.
Although Valimaki did make some mistakes there were times where he looked really good and patient with the puck. Just may have to work on timing his pinches a little bit better. Which probably was due to the change in intensity of the regular season so he should be able to adjust.
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