The best way to describe Allen’s 8-1 loss to Tulsa last night is look at the keys to the game from the blog yesterday and how the Americans performed against those keys. Last night’s results are in parenthesis.

– The keys to the games in this series would mirror Allen’s performance in its win over Tulsa just eight days ago on on April 1st. If the Americans can match that effort against Tulsa, they will win.

• Allen scored first – (Nope)
• Allen led after the first period – (Nope)
• Allen led after the second period – (Nope)
• Allen outshot Tulsa – (Nope)
• Allen won the special teams battle (Nope)
• Allen got great goaltending (Nope)
• Allen allowed only two goals (Nope) 

– It was pretty clear it was going to be a long night for the Americans when they accomplished none of the keys to victory when Allen beat Tulsa on April 1. Last night Tulsa scored three goals on 13 shots halfway through the first period and the games was over. The Oilers scored three more goals on their first, fourth and seventh shots of the second period and the route was on. After trailing 6-0 the Americans finally got on the scoreboard at

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