When looking ahead to this season, I figured we would get a team that could just take over the game in the offensive zone, but also play stingy, nearly suffocating defense to boot, while getting stellar goaltending.
That is exactly what we got in this period. The goaltending wasn’t stellar, but I’d rather Henrik look good making 4 or 5 easy saves rather than him look spectacular making 25 saves in a period and letting in 2 goals. Shots on goal are drastically in our favor, but more importantly we have the quality to go with that quantity. BTW, how did we get the first goal? Oh yeah, goal mouth scramble with men in front and us getting the puck to the net. Strange phenomenon for us to see aye?
Ilya Kovalchuk shouldn’t have got a 5 minute majors and a game misconduct on that play. He should have got a 2 minute minor, a 5 minute major, and a suspension. That was a despicable play by Ilya, and I am really surprised at him. First he throws a high hit, with an elbow on Rozsival, then 10 seconds later dangerously boards him. If that isn’t suspension worthy, then I’m not sure what is.
