Firstly, that Las Vegas side is a really good team, that play their system well and they play together
BUT
that has to be one of the worst regular season performances that I have seen this team play in a while. Considering we were claiming that the lack of turn over in the team would be a bonus and help get us up to speed quickly, Peters saying he was going to run camp with regular season lines (which was messed up by the Tkachuck hold out, more on him in a minute), there is absolutely no chemistry in this team at the moment at all, even the first line. We had flashes but that is all they were, flashes, nothing consistent.
Rittich - kept them in this game but there were at least three that sneaked through that he really should have had.
Tkachuck - was he even playing because since he signed that big fat contract he seems to be coasting to me. He isn't engaged, making plays or anything. Where is the Tkachuck that was in peoples faces, giving gloves and pushes after the whistle, driving the net and whacking at the puck???
Bennett/Jankowski - these two are currently the whipping boys, despite the lack of results from the whole team, but I actually thought that the third line with Lucic was possibly one of the better lines of the night. They pressured the puck, got the cycle going and created some chances. Probably not a popular opinion but that's what I saw.
Brodie/Stone - Always seemd to be the two D that were on whenever things were all scrambled in our end, just saying.
Overall a shocking performance. I'ts early in the season and there is still time to get it together but they better get the win against SJ, otherwise people are going to really start to worry about this team.
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