Thoughts:
Power Play ... yeah. Brindy learned his lesson about mixing up the forward lines and a defense pairs when things got stagnuts earlier in the season, but has yet to learn the same lesson about his power play units. Same crap we saw out of Peters for four years, which makes this doubly frustrating. Here's the bottom line ... our last two coaches INSIST on attempting to "balance" the two power play units when in truth we barely have enough talent on the roster to make up one decent unit. You can't get didactic about this stuff. If it ain't working, mix it up. Period.
Goalie Interference ... I get the angst, but I honestly don't have any problem with the calls yesterday. Nino jacked a defenseman into Kincaid and got called for it. No arguments here. That's avoidable to be sure. Tie the guy up in front, but don't lever him onto his keeper. Before that when Williams got knocked into Kincaid, the refs correctly made no call at all ... despite contact with the keeper AND Williams managing to get his stick up into Kincaid's mask. Again ... no complaints. Jersey had a few, but so what? At least the ref didn't respond to Kincaid's complaining by calling about three retribution penalties because his delicate little feelings were hurt.
First Period ... I think I mentioned this upstream somewhere, but that first period was coming for awhile now. They started the last two games a bit slowly as well. You've got a young team stuck on a long road trip and trying their best to grind out a playoff spot. They're collectively gassed both physically and mentally. Sooner or later one of these opponents was going to put the dagger in when Carolina started like they had water in the gas lines, and Jersey did.
Look ... go beat Ottawa and you can come home feeling pretty doggone good about this roadie. That's do-able.