— On paper, the Reign outshot the Thunder 14-2 in the final period. They looked just as good in real life. Of course, that means they were outshot 21-15 over the first two frames, which doesn’t even take into account the defensive lapses that allowed Stockton to go up 4-1.

— Karl Taylor said he had no thoughts of pulling Jeff Zatkoff, who sprinkled in more than enough tough saves among his 17 on the evening to validate that decision.

— Darren McMillan was back in the lineup and Dan Knapp, who had a nice assist Friday night on Jon Rheault’s breakaway goal, was scratched.

— Bud Holloway’s hat trick brought a cavalcade of hats to the ice, as well as one shoe and a T-shirt. It’s only my opinion, but when something other than a hat hits the ice, it’s more embarrassing than amusing.

— Colten Teubert got into his first fight of the playoffs. After getting under their skin plenty the night before, Teubert was seen jawing with Stockton during the first period (and even during warmups). But he waited until the third period to dance with Craig Valette. The 6-1 Valette landed a few small punches before the 6-4 Teubert landed on top of Valette when they fell to the ice, which couldn’t have felt good, but I’m sure hockeyfights.com will declare Valette the winner.

The game finished perilously close to deadline, so here are the condensed quotes I was able to get from the Reign:

Karl Taylor:

We weren’t prepared to play. We thought it was going to be easy. That’s my responsibility as a coach. I take full blame for the first two periods — I didn’t have the guys prepared.

Bud Holloway:

We didn’t draw that up, but we said we’re not going to quit out there. We didn’t want to give up the four-goal lead. We came off our game plan a little bit. We just got out of the gate a bit slow.

On where to go from here:
You’ve just got to wipe the slate clean. It’s a best-of-five series now.