Honestly the coaching staff (and players) lost this game before it even started. The line 2-4 forward lines have not worked in those combinations all year.
Pitlick-Backlund-Coleman: 49.4% xGF% this year
Mangiapane- Dube - Richie: 49.8% xGF% this year
Lucic - Monahan - Lewis: 43.4% xGF this year
Put all of them together in the same game and this was always going to be the result. Unsurprisingly all three of those lines struggled tonight.
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