Robb_K wrote:The Blues are healthy, came in on a hot streak and have the right goalie in the game. Why do they have no skating jump and are very shaky with the puck, seemingly with no confidence? Why are they letting a weaker Wild team dictate the play?
Dude, I've followed the Blues for DECADES and you know how many times I've heard that?? Too many to count.
Oakland Blue, still think the Blues will sweep?
Even a blind person can tell the Wild are simply the better team. This is the playoffs so that can change but the Blues history says......
The Blues had FULL control on a delayed penalty, and a terrible whistle stops their scoring opportunity. The Blues don't need the refs to cheat against them.
Robb_K wrote:The Blues had FULL control on a delayed penalty, and a terrible whistle stops their scoring opportunity. The Blues don't need the refs to cheat against them.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the quintessential Doug Armstrong team. Nearly every pickup a healthy scratch, the 'core' of the team does nothing, and 82 games gets thrown away in two hours.
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Didn't even look like a playoff team. I feel bad for Allen. He played great for the most part and gave us more than enough time to win this one.
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L.A. came back from 3 down in their first series last year. I'm not worried. Next game, please.
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[quote="Portland Blues"]Would have been great to see a little more urgency in the 2nd period instead of the final 8 minutes.[/quote]
In the 1st period, too. How does a team sign the best UFA to really help solidify their lineup, make trades to get good depth, have their 2 young stars have breakout seasons, have their young goalie of the future start playing great, win 5 of their last six to win their division and tie for best conference record (starting the playoffs with home ice), and go into the 1st game and play with NO confidence and NO energy in front of their home crowd??????
What in The World will it take to have this team have confidence in the playoffs???
Portland Blues wrote:Would have been great to see a little more urgency in the 2nd period instead of the final 8 minutes.
In the 1st period, too. How does a team sign the best UFA to really help solidify their lineup, make trades to get good depth, have their 2 young stars have breakout seasons, have their young goalie of the future start playing great, win 5 of their last six to win their division and tie for best conference record (starting the playoffs with home ice), and go into the 1st game and play with NO confidence and NO energy in front of their home crowd??????
What in The World will it take to have this team have confidence in the playoffs???
More than once Federko said you have to give the Wild credit. They're a great team and just outplayed the Blues.
1. For those who felt that starting a rookie in the playoffs thought it was a good idea, look back at posts most of you wrote earlier in the year when such an idea came up. It was dumb then, it's dumb now, momentum or otherwise.
Ells might have stolen this game for us. He IS the playoff netminder. We have thrown Halak, Miller and now Allen in front of him and Ells is still the better netminder. Pure and simple.
It's not that Allen sucks, but that Allen is not ready. Throwing him in the fire sure as hell won't make him ready, either. I don't want to hear how poorly the team in front of us played, Allen should have had half of those goals.
Start Brian Elliott and ride him.
2. Not playing Blues Hockey is not going to win us jack. Start playing that.
3. The Wild came out focused and prepared. Even if we somehow won, this would have been a close game. Have to hand it to Minny.
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H-Town Blues wrote:Minnesota definitely earned this win tonight; we were thoroughly outplayed for most of this game. I hope things are substantially different in game 2.
It seemed like that early first (questionable) goal took away any kind of confidence.
11 shots through 2 periods just isn't going to get it.
