You could probably look at this one a couple of ways.
One is simply “Kevin Poulin what the heck.” You come to expect Poulin to stand on his head, not go the other way. Paul Thompson beat him three times, once on a shot he thought he should’ve had, once on a shot where Poulin bought the pass-look, once on one that just, yeah. (He had some things to say about his night. Paper tomorrow.)
The other is, hey, there’s that, but they otherwise had their chances to win this game. They basically withstood all the Penguins had to throw at them in the second period; stringing for one of the Wilkes-Barre papers, so checking in with John Hynes, he said they were looking as much to try to take away Bridgeport’s speed as they were just flat-out keeping it deep. It was effective, but the Penguins didn’t score off of that. The chances that went in were in transition and not great goals at all. Meanwhile, Jeff Zatkoff was making big saves on Bridgeport two-on-ones.
So it’s a bad loss; hard to argue that. Scott Pellerin said they’re looking for consistency, a better follow-up to last night’s emotional win. That didn’t happen. But we’ve seen lots worse, too.
Up bright and early Wednesday.
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But first there’s Tuesday, when they’ll next have a full practice (workouts and limited skaters tomorrow). We’ll get back on Chat Schedule at 1:30.
Several tweaks to the lines mid-game. Watkins swapped with Niederreiter in the third, then swapped from there with Backman. Kinda slacked off on keeping the combos in the last few minutes. Looking forward to having a working and visible-from-here scoreboard again soon.
Ullstrom’s lower-body injury sounds like a day-to-day kind of thing.
Edit: Wow. Tim Erixon plus-6.
Major AHL boxscore URL rollover in today’s Charlotte-Chicago game.
And a nice touch by the mayor to talk about the police, fire and utility workers who have done so much for the community this week. Echo that, for sure.