Game in Los Angeles - a little late but better than never
keep in mind, I only watched the first two periods:
- Carried in the good play from San Jose at the start of the game but the Kings were able to weather the storm as the Canucks really lacked finish (give Quick some credit, though).
- First line didn't do much again and the same goes for the power-play... again.
- Don't know what happened to the defense, looked like it did at the start of the season; losing battles on the boards and leaving guys wide open around the net and in the slot. Even guys we expect to be responsible like Richardson and Daniel were both at fault for a goal against each.
- Luongo was okay, not much he could do with all the point blank chances. Lack was very solid in relief.
- Top players didn't play much in the third period with the game already out of hand and a tough game coming up the next day against the Ducks.
Game in Anaheim:- Lack was awesome again, really like how he's looked early in his career
Nothing at all he could do about the 2 goals that got past him.
- First line didn't show up pretty much for the whole 4-game road-trip and as a result the power-play continues to struggle (Torts: "our power-play sucked").
- Team defence was better than it was vs. the Kings but Hamhuis and Bieksa really played that 3-on-2 poorly and it was the difference in the game. The bad line change didn't help, of course.
- Our AHL line of Archibald - Welsh - Dalpe might have been our best line and Sestito was the only one to score, so that kind of tells the story.
- Effort seemed to be there for the most part, but again not being able to bury our chances has been the obvious and simple problem over the past couple games. Burrows had glorious opportunities in both games at important times but failed
This post was edited by LuLer on Nov 11 2013 12:25pm