Has Detroit shown us anything so far in the post season? For all their talent they have looked ordinary throughout. There is no reason to believe that anything will change for the remainder.
So far the theme of the playoffs is who’s hungrier? Who wants it more. You need not look any further for a illustration of that than the Canadians taking three straight from the Bruins after finding themselves down 3-1.
Look at the four teams that should end up playing for their respected conference championships. All haven’t been close to being in this position for years if ever in their franchise’s history. And all out hustling their opponents.
Montreal is inferior to Tampa Bay. They cannot compete with their skill or speed and tried to take them out of their game with trash talk and cheap shots. It didn’t work. Down 3 games to none they face the “Bulin Wall” and would be better off hiring Jeff Gillooly to play home run derby with his trusty lead pipe on Martin St. Louis’s right knee. Of course that would still leave Lecavalier, Richards, Modin, Stillman, Roy, Andreychuk, Sydor….oh you get the idea. Too many weapons and the clock is the Bolt’s friend.
San Jose has simply taken it to Colorado. Clearly outplayed them in every way at home and put the stake into the heart of the Av’s in front of their home town crowd, (where Colorado has played barely at the .500 level all year). I wonder if the Av’s will have anything left for game four or will they quietly head off into the sunset, (or golf course as it were). No matter what winning four straight would take more than Jeff Gillooly.
Philadelphia? Robert Esche? Who would have believed it?……Ahem, that would be me. Granted catching the Leafs minus Sundin, Nolan, and Nieuwendyk was fortunate but even if they played the Flyers have that look to me. The look of hunger.
Calgary will beat the Red Wings. As Savant said, last night’s game made me a believer. They will win at home on Thursday and I cannot see losing three straight to anyone when you have the great equalizer in net. I’ve been on the Kiprusoff bandwagon all year long and he’s no fluke. CuJo is O-VER-RA-TED. How sweet will it be for Miikka to return to the Shark Tank and face his the team that simply had no room for him with perhaps the best one-two combo in the league, (Toskala and Nabokov)?
Besides hunger all four of these teams have one big common denominator. Strength in net at their peak performance. Of course a hot goalie can carry a team but let’s not kid ourselves. He still needs some help in front of him and he still cannot put a score on the board. Hockey is a team game and all four of these teams are playing like champions.
I haven’t been betting much on these games if at all. Choosing instead to simply be a fan of the game. Love this time of year and enjoy it while it lasts because it doesn’t look good for next season. From everything I’ve been hearing the lockout is going to happen and we may have a scrub, (errr scab), league to be filling in for the void.
Wonder if Jeff Gillooly can skate?
So far the theme of the playoffs is who’s hungrier? Who wants it more. You need not look any further for a illustration of that than the Canadians taking three straight from the Bruins after finding themselves down 3-1.
Look at the four teams that should end up playing for their respected conference championships. All haven’t been close to being in this position for years if ever in their franchise’s history. And all out hustling their opponents.
Montreal is inferior to Tampa Bay. They cannot compete with their skill or speed and tried to take them out of their game with trash talk and cheap shots. It didn’t work. Down 3 games to none they face the “Bulin Wall” and would be better off hiring Jeff Gillooly to play home run derby with his trusty lead pipe on Martin St. Louis’s right knee. Of course that would still leave Lecavalier, Richards, Modin, Stillman, Roy, Andreychuk, Sydor….oh you get the idea. Too many weapons and the clock is the Bolt’s friend.
San Jose has simply taken it to Colorado. Clearly outplayed them in every way at home and put the stake into the heart of the Av’s in front of their home town crowd, (where Colorado has played barely at the .500 level all year). I wonder if the Av’s will have anything left for game four or will they quietly head off into the sunset, (or golf course as it were). No matter what winning four straight would take more than Jeff Gillooly.
Philadelphia? Robert Esche? Who would have believed it?……Ahem, that would be me. Granted catching the Leafs minus Sundin, Nolan, and Nieuwendyk was fortunate but even if they played the Flyers have that look to me. The look of hunger.
Calgary will beat the Red Wings. As Savant said, last night’s game made me a believer. They will win at home on Thursday and I cannot see losing three straight to anyone when you have the great equalizer in net. I’ve been on the Kiprusoff bandwagon all year long and he’s no fluke. CuJo is O-VER-RA-TED. How sweet will it be for Miikka to return to the Shark Tank and face his the team that simply had no room for him with perhaps the best one-two combo in the league, (Toskala and Nabokov)?
Besides hunger all four of these teams have one big common denominator. Strength in net at their peak performance. Of course a hot goalie can carry a team but let’s not kid ourselves. He still needs some help in front of him and he still cannot put a score on the board. Hockey is a team game and all four of these teams are playing like champions.
I haven’t been betting much on these games if at all. Choosing instead to simply be a fan of the game. Love this time of year and enjoy it while it lasts because it doesn’t look good for next season. From everything I’ve been hearing the lockout is going to happen and we may have a scrub, (errr scab), league to be filling in for the void.
Wonder if Jeff Gillooly can skate?
