They did not look ready but to be honest this is becoming a on-off trend that's really disappointing. Kane, Toews and Sharp have been what you'd expect from these guys at 10 goals and 14 assists. The next 6 scorers have 2 goals and 9 assists. Hossa took no shots last night. Zero. Keith, Brouwer, Bolland, Byfuglien and Versteeg are a combined -17. I'm not sure Niemi is the problem. You can't allow 4 and 5 shots at a time. Worse, is breaking the Cardinal rule of giving up a goal in the last minute or to begin a period. They did both..^ 5-1, not 5-0, but it was still a pretty good beating. Niemi and the rest of the 'Hawks did not look prepared to play.
Kane flat-out said he expected this to be an easy series. Stanley Cup lesson #1: NEVER underestimate your opponent.They did not look ready but to be honest this is becoming a on-off trend that's really disappointing. Kane, Toews and Sharp have been what you'd expect from these guys at 10 goals and 14 assists. The next 6 scorers have 2 goals and 9 assists. Hossa took no shots last night. Zero. Keith, Brouwer, Bolland, Byfuglien and Versteeg are a combined -17. I'm not sure Niemi is the problem. You can't allow 4 and 5 shots at a time. Worse, is breaking the Cardinal rule of giving up a goal in the last minute or to begin a period. They did both..
Your guys outplayed us up and down. I can only hope the other 6 can step tomorrow.
I think NBC has a Sunday afternoon game every week, like Saturday nights on HNIC. I missed the Bruins-Flyers match-up on Saturday because it was on at 9:30 am PST; usually early games still aren't any earlier than 11 or 12 out here.I missed the habs game cause I don't usually watch the playoffs, and I wasn't ready for the early puck-off. Motherpuckers! Who's idea was it to start so early on a Sunday? I had my beers ready and crap, and, no game
I think Sunday games are always in the afternoon.
That goes for any sport but you're taking his comments completely out of context as he's comparing the Canucks style to the Predators style. "Flat out" is bulletin board material and this is not bulletin board material.Kane flat-out said he expected this to be an easy series. Stanley Cup lesson #1: NEVER underestimate your opponent.
I'm expecting tonight's game to be a lot closer, but hoping it goes much like Saturday's game.
"Sometimes when you have a long layoff it hurts," said Kane. "But they had the same thing, though, so there's no excuse for it. Maybe we came in thinking it was going to be an easy series which obviously it's not."..."Especially playing a run-and-gun team, maybe we thought it was going to be different."
Honestly, I want to see a Sharks vs. Penguins final myself.
As of the Canadians vs. Penguins, the team that lost their best defenseman is gonna lose to the team that lost their third-line forward.