I'm thinking switching up the lines didn't help. I think Donny picked this game to do it because he figured even if they were off a bit they could still win. He figured wrong. The question becomes, then, did switching up the lines help at all and will it help in the future? I'm not optimistic for the rest of this week but we'll see.
It will also be interesting to see how much of this is on the absence of both Joki and Muel. When they were in and playing it seemed pretty obvious that the strong offense we were seeing was a direct result of a defense that could rapidly turn the play up ice. There was also excellent gap control. We're not seeing that currently.