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Buffalo Sabres Blogger • Insider •
Racketball on ice.
Brad Stuart's serve, err, point shot, careened off the end wall with reverse English, and burrowed its way under the Pens golaer, like the pesky gopher in Caddyshack.
1-0 Wings.
Strange. Very strange.
Talk about home ice advantage. Jeesh!
Doesn't matter how it gets there. Just get the biscuit on the the net.
Thats the game that the Pens lost inside The Joe on Saturday night.
The Wings take a Game 1 win into tonight, by virtue of two knucklepucks that found the back of the net with a lot of help from MA Fleury's rump.
The dead-spot underneath the opposing team's basket in the old oak parquet floor at the old Boston Garden laughs at the end walls at The Joe.
Interestingly, the Pens decided to skate at heir rink in Pittsburgh, then jet into Daytwa for Game 1. Perhaps their rookie coach should have demanded that his team try its hand at racketball at The Joe.
One need only look back to the Western Conference clinching goal when Tomas Holmstrom sucked up the slap pass off the end wall, fired it at Huet, only to have the "Nightmare On Helm Street" bang her home for the series winner.
How crazy is it that three of the Wings last four goals have all come as a result of primary assist from the end walls? The Helm series winner. Next, Stuart. Then, Franzen.
Former MSU Spartan, Justin Abdelkader's infield fly rule, turned goal was another such bizarro world goal. Shot. Post. Pop fly fielded, only to be deftly placed on his own hand on his own stick for the the shot to the Pens' heart. Where was the puck support from the Pens D?
One of them night! It looked as if the Pens would topple the defending champs.
The Pens loaded, then emptied their clip in the Wings for the better part of the first forty minutes minutes. A winning strategy for Bylsma's plucky Pens. Sid, Geno, Talbot, Guerin, Kunitz, and the rest of the Pens need not hang their heads in shame. The played a near perfect road game. Save two errant pucks that found their way over the goal line with a lot of help from the concrete walls behind Fleury's cage.
Head slap moments like we saw in Game 1 are the very essence of what make the Stanley cup Finals the thing of legend.
****
I don't care what Wing fans say.
Henrik Zetterberg clearly closed his hand on the puck, as it lay motionless on Chris Osgood's back. All the while in the crease.
Sid the Kid was absolutely correct in his protest to the officials.The CBC overhead cam confirmed the suspicion. Zetterberg's hand closed around the puck, then, he decided to lay on top of Osgood to smother the puck and force the whistle.
PENALTY SHOT. All day long! They make that call in house hockey, for cryin' out loud!
The refs blew the call.
That non-call may be the difference in this series.
***
Brad Stuart's serve, err, point shot, careened off the end wall with reverse English, and burrowed its way under the Pens golaer, like the pesky gopher in Caddyshack.
1-0 Wings.
Strange. Very strange.
Talk about home ice advantage. Jeesh!
Doesn't matter how it gets there. Just get the biscuit on the the net.
Thats the game that the Pens lost inside The Joe on Saturday night.
The Wings take a Game 1 win into tonight, by virtue of two knucklepucks that found the back of the net with a lot of help from MA Fleury's rump.
The dead-spot underneath the opposing team's basket in the old oak parquet floor at the old Boston Garden laughs at the end walls at The Joe.
Interestingly, the Pens decided to skate at heir rink in Pittsburgh, then jet into Daytwa for Game 1. Perhaps their rookie coach should have demanded that his team try its hand at racketball at The Joe.
One need only look back to the Western Conference clinching goal when Tomas Holmstrom sucked up the slap pass off the end wall, fired it at Huet, only to have the "Nightmare On Helm Street" bang her home for the series winner.
How crazy is it that three of the Wings last four goals have all come as a result of primary assist from the end walls? The Helm series winner. Next, Stuart. Then, Franzen.
Former MSU Spartan, Justin Abdelkader's infield fly rule, turned goal was another such bizarro world goal. Shot. Post. Pop fly fielded, only to be deftly placed on his own hand on his own stick for the the shot to the Pens' heart. Where was the puck support from the Pens D?
One of them night! It looked as if the Pens would topple the defending champs.
The Pens loaded, then emptied their clip in the Wings for the better part of the first forty minutes minutes. A winning strategy for Bylsma's plucky Pens. Sid, Geno, Talbot, Guerin, Kunitz, and the rest of the Pens need not hang their heads in shame. The played a near perfect road game. Save two errant pucks that found their way over the goal line with a lot of help from the concrete walls behind Fleury's cage.
Head slap moments like we saw in Game 1 are the very essence of what make the Stanley cup Finals the thing of legend.
****
I don't care what Wing fans say.
Henrik Zetterberg clearly closed his hand on the puck, as it lay motionless on Chris Osgood's back. All the while in the crease.
Sid the Kid was absolutely correct in his protest to the officials.The CBC overhead cam confirmed the suspicion. Zetterberg's hand closed around the puck, then, he decided to lay on top of Osgood to smother the puck and force the whistle.
PENALTY SHOT. All day long! They make that call in house hockey, for cryin' out loud!
The refs blew the call.
That non-call may be the difference in this series.
***
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