Then why does he seem so tentative and a step behind when going for loose pucks he used to get?

Fitzpatrick left the net to retrieve a loose puck 15 feet away.

At some point, there was a loose puck in their zone, down in the left corner.

"First time in a while some loose pucks were sitting around," Lindros said.

"They got to all the loose pucks and I think that was the difference."

We've got to get it in deep and jump on loose pucks.

Sharifijanov followed the play and leapt on the loose puck.

"We got outbumped and beat to the loose puck," he said.

The nervous players started the drill and immediately began to run into each other, with loose pucks flying every which way.

Winning a few more skirmishes for loose pucks would be nice, too.