Started off on the visitors’ side, where things were obviously a bit happier. Then over to the home side, where, obviously, they were not.
“Every little thing we tried to concentrate on, keys to the game, did not happen,” Jack Capuano said. “Turning pucks over, defensemen trying to move the puck in transition. Forwards didn’t get the puck to the net.”
He singled out Mark Wotton for praise. Wotton brought it — he was in deep, knocking people over, going to the net. (Tried to draw something out of him about it. Right.)
The rest of the afternoon, there just wasn’t the usual. Take away that sequence that made it 2-0 — another publication will call it something like a practice play gone haywire — with the three odd-man rushes in a row, and maybe take away the first power play, where they tic-tac-toe it to the front and the shot goes high… Well, Curry did the job, but how much did they test him? I don’t know that they’d think it was much.
So it’s back to one point after the first home shutout loss in almost 26 months.
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Scott Gordon was here, along with some other Isles folks. Sure they were thrilled. Capuano was in a powwow before we got him and went back in afterward. No immediate indications that anyone was going anywhere, though.
Media Under Siege: J.P. Cote’s delay-of-game clear from the defensive zone almost made it to the press box. I know it was Armed Forces Day here, but yeesh, bombarding us is a little much.
The Pens played with 15 last night. Apparently three guys dressed but DNP’ed. Dan Bylsma issued the standard team-situation, handled-internally thing. Whatever it was, they all played today.
Heading out — learned that I’ve got to be back here in about 14 hours. So enjoy the Giroux Watch: only 20 minutes to play at this writing.