Haven't logged back in since before game 1 but strongly disagree with this take. I think that was easily the best we've played in over a month. We had some terrible puck luck, particularly the first goal, and you can't take a double minor even if it was the result of Mackinnon apparently just call his own fucking penalties because nobody saw it (it was bizarre in the arena as it took a while to figure out WTF was even going on) but I thought we played them pretty even lopsided final score aside. Their goalie made some great saves when we were pushing to tie it up leading to the breakaway goal on the other end. That's hockey. MoneyPuck had us at 3.84 to 3.64 expected goals and 59% chance of winning in the "deserve to win O'meter". The one thing that concerns me is not finishing great chances. I still haven't seen replay but one that jumped out at me from the stands was a Benn look where he could have elevated and buried it but shot it right into the body. That kind of thing is what hurt us last playoffs where we left way too many goals out there (all 3 series).
On to tonight. I don't feel great about the series absent a Miro miracle as I don't think Harley can hold up playing that many minutes every game but do feel good about grabbing game 2. I'm pretty sure I'm 2-0 this season not drinking at all, so probably going to try to keep that streak alive for a 9PM start on a Monday after a holiday weekend!