To your defense, Kyle Nixon started in goal tonight, and he seemed really sloppy, coming off the post early on a couple goals, and just seemed uneasy in the crease. The Dogs got a shorty from Stapleton at 14:28 of the second, and a couple of quick goals at the end of second to turn a 4-2 game into a 7-2 blowout. Nixon seemed really deflated after many of the later goals, ripping off his chinstrap after on of them. The Dogs pumped in 7 goals on 34 shots, and carried the play from the first intermission on.
I the first period, we saw the Mankato team that you had up at REA last weekend. The ice still seemed tilted, but they were able to neutralize the Dogs forecheck with a lot of chipping off the glass. When they did get an opportunity, they buried it.