“I don’t think we deserved to be up 2-0 and I don’t think we deserved to be up 4-1,” said Sheldon Keefe. “That was as bad of a game as we’ve played in quite a while here, so it’s quite disappointing. We looked like a really tired, sluggish team today. It is our eighth day on the road, so maybe that’s a factor… We show signs of being a good team and then you take a pretty large step backward today, so we’re going to have to regroup here.”
First Period
The Marlies were opportunistic in the first period, scoring on their first and second shots of the game to open up a 2-0 lead inside seven minutes.