I was concerned about the attendance after hearing rumours, but it was probably 2700 ish from what I could see. Noise was fantastic.
We were poor across the board in the first. Imagine the flow was completely interrupted by a non-existent trip call in the first 12 seconds. First goal was good, next two looked like ones Bownsy would want back.
Penalty kill looked organise to start, but was broken down a bit the longer it went on.
Second was an outstanding period of hockey, and lovely to watch live. We were fully deserving of our first, and whilst the second was a bit lucky, it was not against the run of play.
Third was tense, and some unfortunate calls broke up some good pressure.
Won’t blame the refs overly, we could have won that game if we played a full 60.
Linglet looked like a man who missed preseason with an injury, and may possibly be still carrying. I disagree re Reddick, thought he looked good, as did Blood and Fournier.
Big shout out to Joey Haddad who didn’t look out of place mixing it with Salzburg or our new boys with the weightier CVS.