Third Period Melt Down

Once again we watched the Bruins aquander a 2-0 lead to a Northeast opponnent. With their top two defense men out of the line, the Bruins limped into Ottowa with two rookie defensemen (Sigalet and Lashoff) in the line up and slotted to skate together, another solid coaching move by Dave Lewis. Lashoff, looked good through two periods and arguably could replace the aging and ailing Jason York on a regular basis. His partener, Jon Sigalet should be shuttled bussed back to Providence first thing this morining. He was out of his element and everyone in the building could tell. Chalk it up to nerves, but this kid was bad, makes you wonder why he found himself with a contract. Was it to keep an eye on Brother Jordan, who is a goalie in the Bruins organization?
The forwards started off with a decent effort forchecking well and stacking up at the blue line, making a first period Ottowa threat almost non-existant. The B's however where out shot by Ottowa 11-10, but the boys had the two goal advantage, on a penalty shot by Sturm and a goal by Paul Mara off a deflection in front of Ray Emery (25 Saves .920% Save percentage).
The writting was on the wall at the start of the second period, when the Bruins came out flat, they could not muster any offense and certainly where not controlling the play. The Bruins held Ottowa to only six shots in the second period, which sounds great for team defense, until you see that the Bruins only had 3 shots during that same period.
The third period was scary for the first three plus minutes, with Thomas standing on his head much of that time. The Bruins gave up six shots in the first three minutes and we all knew that we where about to witness yet another third period meltdown.
Sure enough, it officially started at 17:38 when Mike Comrie slipped a backhander through the five hole of Thomas to cut the lead in half. Seven minutes later, the game was tide and five minutes after that Ottowa took the lead for good, the salt was added less than a minute latter and the desert was an empty netter with one minute remaining.
On the positive side, Phil Kessel returned from his Cancer treatment and had one shot on goal in ten minutes of ice time (I hope the lack of ice time was to ease him back in). Another positive was that Muppet Man actually called a time out when his team final gave up the lead. Unforetunately he need to kick them in the ass between the second and third period, which he obviosly either did to hard or not at all., when they decided that one period of good hockey was all they had in them.
Once again we blow a lead, Lewis will say he knows they can do it, and the rest of the league looks forward to playing us.