CrashingTheGoalie

by desertdawg
Just a quickie here: Sundin and Salo are out. Hansen and Vananen draw in. Hurts a bit because Salo has certainly been a our best D man. Mats is still Mats, especially on the power play. But here’s what I really wanted to say about Game Four:
Roberto Luongo. I know, it seems a bit [...]

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by desertdawg
Mats is out and Jannik draws in.
I imagine the great Dane is probably undergoing alternating feelings of mad passion and mad nausea. His first NHL playoff game and all he is expected to do is replace a legend like Mats. The guy who scored the winning goal in the last game.
No problema senors/senoras.
The [...]

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by desertdawg
You’ve heard it a zillion times. The two goal lead is the worst lead in hockey. Pretty hard to argue because with the two goal cushion, you can breathe a little easier, you are comfortably ahead. The opposition simply cannot afford to let you score that third goal. But if they score, they are [...]

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THERE’S NO LOVE LOST BETWEEN CANUCKS AND BLUES by Norm Sanders of the News-Democrat
HOW WILL THEY [BIEKSA AND KESLER] DIE? by Donut King on St. Louis Gametime
ST. LOUIS BLUE KEITH TKACHUK STILL WEARING THE BLUE NOTE PROUDLY by Dan O’Neill of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
KARIYA WILL PRACTICE WITH BLUES SUNDAY by Jeremy Rutherford of the [...]

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by Ron Spence
Roberto Luongo has played in 14 post-season games and has a .946 save percentage and a 1.61 goals against average. 
Who holds the post-season record for save percentage, and who has the best career goals against average?
Which NHL goalies – playing in this post-season – are in the Top Ten in goals against and [...]

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by desertdawg
Well, Daddy’s back home and a little hung over from his festive afternoon. And we all know the best cure for a brandy hangover…don’t we, Brandy!
And we knew the Blues would come out harder tonight and the worst case scenario would be the early soft goal. To our credit, that didn’t materialize. Although they [...]

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by desertdawg
One of the things I learned playing organized sports at a young age was that pre-game preparation was supremely important to game success.
And even as an adult playing in those comical, old-timer beer leagues, I could never understand the guys who showed up ten minutes before game time, quickly donned the equipment, [...]

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by desertdawg
Ah, the playoffs. We are rightly excited by our opportunity. But I’ve been hammering at this one point in the last few blogs. We haven’t won anything more than an opportunity. But what an opportunity!
And, as has been stated here and every other honest blogspace: there are lots of good teams and tonight we’ll [...]

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by desertdawg
Well folks, buckle up.
I haven’t seen a city this giddy with potential success for quite a few years. Maybe 2003 when the West Coast Express was in its heyday. And that reminds me: the awards that they don’t have trophies for.
The NHL has lots of hardware to hand out in Vegas this year and [...]

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