Wings 3, Sharks 2
If you take away the first ten minutes or even the first period, the Wings played a great game. It was enjoyable and close. As someone sitting second row near the blue line, I really enjoyed the game. I will post photos as soon as my dad has time to go through them all (and he got some fantastic hits by the way).
Unfortunately, I have five days off between my winter semester and my spring term (which starts Tuesday). I’ve been busy running errands, packing up the dorm room, unpacking at home, driving to Canada to cheer on the Plymouth Whalers, and watching the Wings. I will be going to the Tigers’ games on Sunday afternoon and Monday evening (both for free!). Fortunately, the Tigers game starts at 7pm on Monday and the Wings don’t start until 10pm so I’ll probably just have to listen to the first period on the radio.
Anyways, that means I don’t have much time for game recaps so here are some quick thoughts…
- Hasek. Stay in your net. If it’s the last thing you do. Bad things happen when you venture outside that crease. You go mental. You lose your stick. You turn the puck over to the opposing team. Just stay in the net and do what you do best.
- Dan Cleary is the man. He’s scored two huge shorthanded goals this postseason (one today and one in game #5 against Calgary as a penalty shot).
- The Sharks are a big team! I’m only 5′5″ so any hockey player looks tall to me, but the Sharks definitely looked huge. Thornton looked great although it was funny to hear the little kid sitting next to me yell, “You suck Thornton,” at the top of his lungs.
- Nabokov does not scare me. Yes, he’s a good goalie, but he’s not Kipper or Luongo. I couldn’t even keep track of the number of times he gave up big rebounds. I only wish that Tomas Holmstrom had been healthy to try to and score off those rebounds.
- Crash the net! I’m not saying interfere with the goalie, but a lot of our good chances came when a Red Wings player was trying to screen Nabokov or at least skating in front of the net. I definitely missed Homer in today’s game.
- I counted at least four octopi that were thrown out on the ice (one was right before the conclusion of the Star Spangled Banner). Al Sabokta carried off two of them swinging them around his head like he always does. Three were thrown at one time and an ice girl came and picked up two with her bare hands. I was very impressed! That’s what you get when you have female youth hockey players as “ice girls” instead of paid dancers/cheerleaders in sexy costumes as ice girls.
Like I wrote above, I’ll post pictures as soon as my dad gets them to me. And there won’t be any posting for me tomorrow until after I get back from the Tigers’ game. Go Wings!
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April 29th, 2007 at 11:21 am
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