Not much else to say about last night's debacle of a hockey game. The Wild hung Jose Theodore out to dry in his team debut. Here's a quote from Burns after the game: "I feel bad. He played great," Wild defenseman Brent Burns said. "Not much help from us. It's tough to throw him to the wolves like that. It felt like we were in our zone a lot. We didn't seem to get it out much." Gee - ya think so, hockey mental giant?? You must have been educated by the great and all-knowing hockey mind of James Sheppard.
Absolutely Inexcusable Hockey Playing
Second night of back to back games - EVERY team does it, suck it up and be an NHL player for God's sake. How come we're consistently the team that lies down and takes a nap on the second game? How many times have we seen our opponent hit the ice after playing the night before and promptly KICK OUR ASS? Too Many! For the kind of money you all make you should be out there doing cartwheels on blades in order to clear the zone, drive to the goal and put the puck in the net. Instead you took the night off because you were tuckered out...from having spent the previous night killing 20 minutes worth of penalties. That's all your own doing as well. You got lucky in that Backstrom decided to stay in his yard and concentrated on just stopping the pucks within his reach. This could have very easily been an O-fer road trip with two division rivals taking big bites out of our butts.
Richards - were you screaming your head off in the locker room after the 1st period? Were you ready to throw Miettinen and Havlat and Latendresse to the back of the bus? Nope, you just let them get away with horrid play - including MIkko Koivu. There's no excuse for your captain to take a night off - ever. That's why he wears the C. He should have been on that bench reaming his team mates for taking shifts off, not moving their feet, not looking where they're passing to and taking the blame for his own actions. That's what unites a team, not everybody just sitting in their own sullen silence. Every time the camera panned our bench it was just a bunch of babies quietly pouting.
Greatest quote of the season, if not ever, from Russo's Blog: "Malhotra was saying fans should stay out of his workspace. He wasn't saying the Wild should stay out of his workspace."
There were very few players who didn't screw the pooch last night. I'm not blind to that.
But for the love of Bobby Orr can somebody, anybody, tell me why:
- we think Schultz is soo worth hanging on to?
- we signed Madden?
- Kobasew is still here?
Note to Craig Liepold - you think you're losing money on this team? Visit craigslist some time to see Wild tickets being sold for less than face value by season ticket holders trying to get something, anything in return for their initial investment. And these aren't just game-day dumps, these are dates for games well in advance. I remember the days when you couldn't get near a Wild game without paying twice the face value of a ticket.
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