Where's Wellwood

At the end of the day our forward group let us down.

8 goals in 7 games is BS. Doesnt matter if Hamhuis was out, Ballard, Rome, Malhotra.

Luo won us a few games , we just let him down

It's pretty hard to argue that Lu gave us a chance to win any of the road games though.  His performance in Boston was simply unacceptable.

From my perspective Rome was part of it, but not Rome the player. Rome, the point of swinging momentum.

In my opinion it had way more to do with AV's stand-back coaching.

We'd come out buzzing, would go up 1-0 and then try to clench our cheeks until the final buzzer sounded. And roast them on the PP, but otherwise play red-rover on our blueline.

Once the media shouted the refs down to the point that they wouldn't call a Sedin getting speed-bagged cause we were 'whiners and divers' (but they would throw Rome out for a legal hit (at that time)) AV's system just wouldn't work anymore, we weren't given the PP's that he relied on.

That system had lost to the Blackhawks both prior years and allllmost lost to them that year, and then eventually failed against the Bruins.