I had to laugh. I mean, you HAD to see it coming; it was inevitable Gerber would blow it. Gerber’s a dreadful goalie and that was about as bad a goal as I’ve seen allowed in the playoffs. Any OHL goalie stops that shot 97 times out of a hundred.
I know Ray Emery’s an asshole, but if your season is on the line you should put your best goalie between the pipes. Gerber’s a scrub, always has been, and if you appoint him your starting goalie in the playoffs you’re pretty much announcing “We have given up, and just want this season to be over.”
Here’s to hoping the Senators have a real goalie next season, whether that’s a result of Emery getting his head screwed on right or somebody new. If Gerber’s the starter next season we miss the playoffs.
I’ll trade you. Hasek let in three tonight and we had noncalls like crazy on the ice for both teams.
I’m not surprised that Detroit lost tonight. It seems that the games you’re most likely to lose are your home opener and their home opener. It’s the way Detroit lost. Following last games near collapse at the hands of Hasek (that’s right. Just stroll around the net with the puck in front. Nashville will wait.), he followed it up with three goals that most netminders in the league would’ve stopped. What’s worse is that because it was close, I’d bet they won’t change Hasek for Osgood next game.
I’m glad to see someone sent the Sharks a link to my post, but halfway through the third period is cutting it a bit close.
Great game! I watched it a Dave & Busters with 200 or so other fans. Now I’m hoarse again. Comebacks are intense, but I’d like to see a 9-2 drubbing just to ease my mind.
We’re so in this as long as we keep up the intensity. They all need to play like Devin Setoguchi, Torrey Mitchell, and now Patty Marleau.
Wow, this feels really good. An amazing performance by my Penguins (10 different goal scorers over the 4 games), and Marc-Andre Fleury may well have gotten the monkey off his back. I can’t wait for the next round.
You could split it three ways using a lot of words. They were simply roadkill. I;; say it again; any team in the NHL, including all 14 teams that did not make the playoffs, would have beaten the Senators.
Of course, at least they were in the playoffs. I guess that counts for something. Sort of. It’s like being dealt a pair of deuces.
beergeek, that series didn’t tell us anything about the Penguins. The Senators were too terrible from top to bottom. I still think that you have major holes on defence that a real NHL team will be able to exploit.
A few extra million in revenue from the two home playoff games?
I disagree. It’s far too easy to play down to an inferior opponent, to take games off. The Pens did not take any games off against Ottawa.
As for dealing with adversity, I think you have to look at the 1st period of Game 3. The Senators were energized by coming back home, as well as the return of their captain, and launched a serious offensive barrage. The Pens withstood the 1st period, a first goal scored against them, and won the game. I do not think the Penguins’ mental toughness is in question.
If you think the Sens were shit, that’s fine. I just don’t want to hear the claim that they lost the series instead of the Penguins winning it, because they won it in a more dominating fashion than should have been expected.
Incidentally, if you think the defense is suspect…well, consider that the offense can easily put up 3 goals a game in the playoffs, and that Marc-Andre Fleury is posting a .955 save percentage, including posting a shutout in that frenetic 1st period of Game 3. I’ll take my chances with a supposedly soft defense.
I’ve been hearing from a lot a different sources in the media that the Ducks are like a hibernating bear waking up slowly and the Stars are like a person with a stick…poking at it, agitating it to the point of being angry…we’ll see tonight if that is indeed the case.
…and the top goal-scorer Perry will be back in the lineup tonight.
Did you miss the bit where both Sens fans on this board predicted the sweep? The outcome of that series was not a surprise to anyone paying close attention to the Senators.
That is a quote that Brian Burke made in February after a couple of players had had an extra long “offseason”.
“Watching our team come together is like watching a bear wake up at the zoo, he shakes his arms out and he shakes his legs out and it’s a process. But when he’s awake, he’s a bear.”
Of the last 24 playoff series that were locked up at 2-2, the team that won game five ended up winning the series 22 of those 24.
The Sharks didn’t play “perfect” in that the Flames had their opportunities, but we outplayed them for an entire game for the first time, and had enough of a lead to hang them out to dry. We gave the Flames more than they could handle. Props to Marlaeu, Setoguchi, and (Duh) Chee-Choooooooooooo!
[COLOR=Teal]GO SHARKS![/COLOR]
What the hell happened to the Canadiens last night!!! It was as if Price’s goof up killed him for the rest of the game…They’d better take this in Boston because my nerves can’t handle a game 7!
