I’m trying to start a debate here and ask for peoples opinions. Kind of what this forum is for. If you have an opinion, I’ll be pleased to hear it.
Ok.
My opinion is that after three straight losses, the most important thing was to win. And preferably to win comfortably.
We did that after 40 minutes. 4-1 up and then killed the game off without any issues in the 3rd.
Manchester play on a small ice pad and are better built for physical hockey. If we’d started throwing hits around it would have been playing into their hands and playing the type of game they wanted.
Russell said after the last game that we weren‘t doing the small things right. I could be wrong but I took that to mean things like sticks in the right place, soft-interference to slow down the opposition etc. The type of things that would stop Storm from playing the type of game they want.
I couldn't care less if the game was boring. We were away from home, it’s not our job to entertain. We’re still in a run where we average a game every other day. Players are going to be tired. A checking style of game would make that worse.