Sunday, October 15, 2006

How can you blame the keeper?

So we dropped another one 4-1 lastnight and our friends at the Boston Globe
seem to want to put the blame on the keeper. Well once again the Bruins where their own worst enemy. Yes they scored A power play goal, but they failed to keep themselves out of the box when needed and they allowed 13 shorthanded shots throughout the game. Good thing this was not one of the last few games where they could not even generate any powerplay shots, as they at least accomplished that. The new look power play mustered five shots on its first attempt and netted a goal on only its second look, by Glen Murray.
Goaltending according to the stats should be given at least a B as Hannu stopped 35 shots. How the hell can you put blame on a keeper if they make 35 saves? If he had stopped the other 4 he would have been close to a 40 save shut out and he would have been a hero. Hell even if he had a shut out with 20 saves he would be getting praise instead of blame. Well I am not sure what game good old Fluto watched but I saw two goals that Hannu maybe should have gotten (one broke off his glove which is just bad luck, and the other was a partial breakaway which is more or less the fault of the defense for a bad change.) The other two goals where a complete team break down, hell one of them was scored on the third whack at Hannu's pad beside the net. Penalty or not that guy should have been on his as after the first whack.
Coach Lewis seems to think that they just need to gel more as a team, well five games on the road should be enough for them to gel.... The home opener is next week, they loose that one and all hell is going to break loose at the Jacobs house, as daddy Jacobs will be pissed when home game two is not a sell out.
Bottom line is they need a power play that works and they need to capitalize on the odd man rushes. 39 freaking shots on net by the other team is not going to win you many games! Even if you had Marty Broduer in his prime. Remember the average is one out of ten goes in. Hannu had a bad night, he let one more in than he should have on that formula. So as averages play out we should have only lost 3-1 Good lord men WE FREAKING LOST because we did not play as a team! March I hope you held off on that ten game plan!

1 comment:

March2theSea said...

i haven't done the 10 game other than that one year. Nobody is willing to drop the $$ at the outset.

I DID get a 5 game pack for the prov B's! Can't wait for that..they do it right. I paid 200.00 for 2 seats 4 rows off the ice in the corner they shoot on for 2 periods. Part of the perks to the plan.

1 "flex" ticket per seat (meaning I have 2 tickets to go to any game outside my plane\

1 voucher for big B's ticket (again that makes 2 tickets)

a meet and greet w/the players

a skate w/the players.

Pretty awesome IMO for 200.