Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Game 4
According to the Rags-wing media the Devils won game three on a lucky bounce. The GWG was fortuitous but hitting a skate on a cross crease pass is hardly a rare play. Conveniently, most of the NHL's corporate Hessians-lovers are forgetting the Blue Team's fortune in Game Three:
1.) Pandolfo randomly breaking his stick on a power play, making it a 5 on 3.5 which the Rags scored on.
2.) Salvador accidently batting the puck out of play on the Third Period PP that was based on a dubious penalty on Elias to begin with, turning it into a 5-3.
3.) In that 5-3 Avery getting away with egregious unsportsmanlike conduct, that should not have necessitated any new rule clarifications, before getting the goal.
No, I'm not going to say that the Rags are just lucky - they have capitalized on their breaks and played hard. They finally have a very strong goaltender; replace post-concussion Richter with Lunqvist on some of those silly late 90s teams and they probably at least make the playoffs once. All I'm saying is that the Devils are pretty good too, and seem to be their best when the powers that be really don't want them to win.
Brodeur hasn't played a good game yet in this series. Expect a 1-0 or 2-1 sort of game with both goalies being stellar.
1.) Pandolfo randomly breaking his stick on a power play, making it a 5 on 3.5 which the Rags scored on.
2.) Salvador accidently batting the puck out of play on the Third Period PP that was based on a dubious penalty on Elias to begin with, turning it into a 5-3.
3.) In that 5-3 Avery getting away with egregious unsportsmanlike conduct, that should not have necessitated any new rule clarifications, before getting the goal.
No, I'm not going to say that the Rags are just lucky - they have capitalized on their breaks and played hard. They finally have a very strong goaltender; replace post-concussion Richter with Lunqvist on some of those silly late 90s teams and they probably at least make the playoffs once. All I'm saying is that the Devils are pretty good too, and seem to be their best when the powers that be really don't want them to win.
Brodeur hasn't played a good game yet in this series. Expect a 1-0 or 2-1 sort of game with both goalies being stellar.
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// posted by Grinder McCarver @ 9:46 PM 
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