CrashingTheGoalie

by desertdawg

In a game that had all the excitement of Britney Spears’ performance at the MTV awards, the Canucks were lulled to sleep by the straight ahead, nothing fancy, stay in your lanes game of the New York Islanders.

These are the toughest games to win and without making excuses for the boys from the west coast, it becomes difficult to get the emotions going against guys you really don’t care about. Yes, they are professionals and they are paid big money to get it going against one of the league’s lesser lights. But it’s not always that easy. This is still the NHL.

Just ask the Ottawa Senators who just lost a home and home against these same Islanders. Ottawa committed numerous turn-overs against a team whose only star is out once again with a bad hip, a bad knee and a bad contract.

Joey Buttafucco is a Long Islander more well known than this collection of no-names.

So how did we lose?

Well, lack of emotion is always a killer. Outside of the reliable Kesler/Burrows/Hanson line, the Canucks were skating like the Ambien hadn’t worn off yet. So pick out your favourite whipping boy and have at it.

All the fans that want to trade Matty Ohlund to your left…all those who want to get rid of Taylor Pyatt please line up to your right.

But look folks, it’s an 82 game schedule and we won’t be able to get the hate going every game. The good news is, the old Canucks would have lost this game. Markus (and I loved the guy) would have scored the first goal of the game and then skated to the bench with a look on his face like his hemorrhoids were acting up again. The Sedins would have cycled the puck endlessly without getting one shot on net and Big Lou would have let a softy get by him in the third period and we would have had the big L for the effort.

We’ll take the loser’s point here and re-group.

This is a team with sound management, good coaching and emerging talent. We are playoff contenders…we are in first place in the division.
Move the ceremonial knife away from your abdomen and take a deep breath.

The boys won’t be happy with this game and that’s not a bad attitude to skate into the next game with. They need to show Markus and the New York media that these Canucks will be heard from.