The penultimate game of the Phantoms’ preseason might have been a difficult one, but Carson Bjarnason still managed to make a positive impression.
The Phantoms’ second game of the preseason — and their first will a fuller compliment of players sure to be their lineup regulars come the regular season — did not break for them in quite the way they would have hoped.
With a somewhat disjointed first two periods, and an uneven level of compete throughout them, the Phantoms found themselves having to work towards clawing their way back into this game in the third period, but with it taking them until the final two minutes of the period to break through on any of their chances, the comeback was pretty comfortably out of their reach, and they fizzled out, dropping this one by a 3-1 margin.