That’s All She Wrote
A fitting end to the type of play we produced this year. A team that wasn’t able to live above their own hype last year in the final, found themselves facing the same problem this year after attaining the NHL’s best start to a season.
The problem has never been a lack of talent, heart, grit or any of the platitudes you hear around arenas this time of year when the cameras are on. Quite simply we’ve a problem adapting to situational games.
What do you do if our goalie is having a bad night. What to do if the big line is being effectively shut down. What do you do when the only players making an effort are the rookies.
It was a problem going as far back as lat November and was blogged about here. Some said I was pessimistic. I think I merely saw the problems for what they were.
Good on Pittsburgh for improving over last year, improving where they needed to and generally raising their level of play.
Season recap coming this weekend along with an analysis of whom should stay, whom should go and whom we’ll most likely see an offer sheet from Kevin Lowe for…