You can't play much more even that those two periods....one positive difference is the Rangers ar controlling the play in the offensive zone way more effectively tonight.
I didn't love that period, too much time in our own zone, and outshot 13-6. We need to up our game in the 3rd. One period to decide the series IMO. Paging Mika and Panarin, please pick up the white courtesy phone. It is all right in front of us. 84 years one Cup, 1-3 in the ECF in the past 13 years, go win the 3rd for the season, and to keep the hope alive to play for the SC!!
I’ll say it again. Panarin and Mika need to do something or they’re cooked. Mika is pretty much invisible and Panarin is back to just wanting to skate around the perimeter.
Get Mika off the PP Lavi!!!!!! PLEASE JUST TRY LAF THERE!!!! Its so insane that he keeps trotting out the same unit despite how ineffective they are.
And that’s the game unless we find a pair of balls for the first line. This team can’t win because our coach is too stubborn to change up the PP. New coach, same brain dead coaching ideas.
ABSOLUTELY have to trade Mika in the offseason. Trade him for nothing, who cares, but this is how many straight post seasons that he folds when shit gets tough.
They won’t win because you can’t when your first line and best players become invisible. The string of luck ran out and this is reality.
