As others have said, frustrating and very disappointing performance tonight, especially after such a good away win last night. Firstly, I have to give credit to Braehead for their great team effort, they seemed to want this win much more than we did which really surprised me. They hassled us all over the ice, causing us to make far too many elementary mistakes which were punished. There will always be games where the odd player or two play below par, and a team can sometimes carry one or two such players. Tonight however, I cannot think of any out ice player who played well, Far too many mistakes, too many poor passes, too many times players couldn't control the puck, too many poor decisions. I have to say that Hotham was next to useless tonight, and I am a big fan of his. He is nowhere near the player he was last year. Tonight he was far too casual, even lazy at times. He gave up more pucks to the opposition than I've ever seen before, he was pushed off the puck by smaller more energetic players and looked as if he was merely going through the motions. He cannot live on reputation alone, and I think there will be some harsh words heading in his direction this week.
Finally, I sincerely hope we can get Ben Davies back next season ! He was awesome tonight I thought. Bags of energy used in the correct manner ( even jumping on top of Hotham after the collision with their net minder, brave for a player of his size ) he won plenty of face offs and used his pace to get behind our ponderous D many times,took some big hits and just got on with things, oh yeh, and scored a decent goal. We could do with a Brit like him and let's hope Lord sees it that way too. What a shame we couldn't follow up on last night's great result with a decent performance in front of a sell out crowd who were badly let down in my opinion. Safe trip home to the great Clan fans I spoke with tonight.
