Seven goals allowed, a host of penalties, two injured defenders, one goal disallowed. It’s hard to find a more frustrating afternoon at work.
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Moreover, this is the word that was on the lips of the players when they returned to the locker room.
“We’re competitive and it’s not fun to lose like that. We were frustrated and we still are,” said Mike Matheson.
Johnathan Kovacevic made sure to bring out the bad guy in the final moments of the match by engaging in a fight with Jake Neighbors in the very last minute of the match.
“There was frustration on our side. A match like that is never fun to play when it starts to go south, explained David Savard. He needed to get that out and that’s how it came out at the end of the match. »
No, conceding seven goals at home, there’s nothing pleasant about that. Especially on an afternoon that was supposed to be festive. Luckily, it doesn’t happen too often (only the third time since April 2022).
“It’s never easy to get demolished, especially at home,” Jayden Struble said.
Tough, but busy match
Struble had one of his rare difficult matches. On the Blues’ first goal, he was bypassed like a schoolboy by Alexey Toropchenko.
A little later, he was in the penalty box for just seven seconds when Jordan Kyrou gave the visitors a two-goal lead again.
The 22-year-old rookie still had his fourth busiest evening of his young career (18 min 56).
It must be said that the Canadian had to make do with five defenders during the last 55 minutes of the game.
Not easy for Harvey-Pinard
The team also announced that Rafaël Harvey-Pinard would miss four to six weeks of activity. Six weeks brings us to March 24. There will then be 13 games left in the Canadian’s season.
“This is not an easy year for HP. We’re going to help him keep his morale up,” said Martin St-Louis.
Remember that Harvey-Pinard missed a total of 27 games during the first half of the season due to an injury to the same leg (right).