Observations:
- The Scorpions are 0-for-19 on the powerplay in the past two games. Now, I have to give credit to Centomo on this one because he single-handedly killed a few of those Laredo penalties, but something's gotta give already. Couple that with a sub-50% penalty kill, and those numbers are nothing short of terrible. What's worse is that 3 of Laredo's 4 powerplay goals were goals they had no business scoring. Not to take anything away from Alex Goupil, who is a great player, but guys shouldn't score from parallel to the goal line. But while Martin was at fault for that one, there wasn't much else he could do on the other two. Even when you're a man down, you can't let the other team outnumber you around your own net. I don't know if the PK was sleeping or what, but Goupil had all day to wander in and hack that rebound past Martin. As for Darryl Smith's goal, right place, right time. The guy celebrated like he'd actually done something to earn that goal (it hit off a skate about 2 feet in front of Martin and kicked right onto Smith's tape), or like the goal was actually of some significance (it made it 5-1, and last I checked, a 3-goal lead in Laredo wasn't the worst lead in hockey). But oh well...here's to a fine rookie season and being linemates with Jeff Bes
- Where is the backchecking? Someone has to have been called out on the god awful two-way play we've seen with this team. That's not a blanket statement, but I'm by no means singling out just one player either
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